OT co-op bank

[alan_m]

The Co-op bank has just sent me an email advertising their upcoming new look for digital banking.

The email contains some useful information about security

Quote Online Security

Please remember ? the bank, police or other trusted organisations will NEVER

Send you an email, text or social media message containing a link to a login page. [End Quote]

Guess where the link in the email for 'see the preview video' goes?

Answer The Co-op bank - Log in to online banking

[The Natural Philosopher]

Are you sure that that is where it has sent you? And not to a phishing site that looks identical?

[Graham.]

How sure are you that it's genuinely from Co-Op Bank? Assuming it is genuine, can I assume the link is pointing here?

If so, that doesn't take you directly to the login page like phishing emails usually do.

This is the login page

[Dave Liquorice]

Or pages that look like the Smile homepage, login page etc... Very occasionally a bit of phishing is very good and I'll wander off and have a loook. These tend to end up in a very convincing set of pages, using "borrowed", stylesheets, images layout etc. Even the displayed URL can be "manipulated"

(had a phishing attempt from paypa! just the other day).

[Jonathan]

I get those regularly and I am not even a customer - one of several reasons why I won't go near them.

Jonathahn