There seems to be a new spate of phishing emails landing in email inboxes, so be on the lookout.

A site user reports that over the past few days he has received quite convincing emails supposedly from Halifax, Lloyds TSB and NatWest, all asking him to confirm his account details.

Luckily, he knew that no bank would ever ask for this information by email.

This, and the fact that he isn’t actually a Halifax or Lloyds TSB customer, left him in no doubt that they were fakes.

I’ve had several phishing emails myself, purporting to be from a range of banks, and they were all after the same thing: my bank account details so they could clean me out.

If you get one of these messages, whatever you do, never follow the instructions it contains.

If you can, forward a copy to the bank it claims to be from – as this may help in efforts to track down the fraudsters responsible – then delete the original.

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