[nation]

Just got this nasty piece of work in my inbox titled "HSBC Bank Has Been Updated":

Dear Customer.

InterNet banking From HSBC means you can access your online accounts 24 hours a day
wherever you are in the world.
Now HSBC is proud to announce about their new updated secure system.
We updated our new SSL servers to give our customers a better, fast and secure online banking service.
Due to the recent update of the servers, you are requested to please update your account info .
*Important*
We have asked few additional information which is going to be the part of secure login process.
These additional information will be asked during your future login security so, please provide all these info
completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.

We are sorry for invoice
For help please contact HSBC Customer Service immediately by
email at

Thank you for using HSBC BANKING

Anyone know who I can report this to. I'm waiting to hear back from HSBC, presumably they we'll refer me to an internet fraud group at the police.

Be careful out there guys.

[freeier]

phishing has been happening all over the world for the past 3-5 years.
doubt anyone wld do much about it... u can't really trace who started it anyway

[PDLM]

I'm getting about 5 per day of these at the moment for banks all over the world... There are so many of them now that there's not much to be gained from reporting them.

[KnowItAll]

The cops are incompetant at best when dealing with such issues. We tried to report some local nigerian fraud and they assigned a detective who could not speak ANY english. Case closed from their end I figure...

[nation]

Interesting this is only the second phishing emails I've ever got. Never even got one with my ebay account and that's where it's rife. The first one I got about a month ago for one of my UK bank accounts. The guys at the UK fraud investigation unit were quite good about it. Came back to me a few times asking for the full email header and various other info. Hopefully if you contact the right people they will do something about it

[freeier]

hahaa..
for the past 3 years i have received on average
3 phishing banking email per week.
7 offers/week to pay me money for pretending to be some dead people's relative.

I even had like hang seng bank employee writing to me.. etc.etc...

after a while u'd get used to it.
i only like to check out how they intend to 'bluff' their way with their web site address. seeing how creative they can get.

some are quite good. hiding an actual web link below some graphics that show e.g. 'hsbc.com.hk'...

[nation]

Damn the links in my original post didn't show up. They were redirecting to variations of hsbc.com - hsbc.org and hsb-c.com

[freeier]

it did when i first read it. but i think our frenly kia decided there is too high chance you might be a double agent trying to phish some geo natives and took it away.. 8-P

[tsuiwah]

What does it matter? HSBC online requires a double password to access your account. Even with your account number and name, it would be nearly impossible for a phisher to get through to your account. Or am I missing something?