Mmastodon BusinessBanking first seen 10 h ago, last 24 min ago, peak #4
Bank's suspicious-looking email raises phishing concerns
Original: Bank email today... * Shows up in Gmail inbox as coming from "statements" * No sender icon * No header image * No sign o
An Australian bank customer received an official email that looked like a phishing attempt: it came from a generic "statements" sender, had no branding or sign-off, was a wall of text with poor punctuation, and was sent from a different domain (xyz.bank) than the bank's website (xyzbank.com.au). The customer questioned why a legitimate bank would send messages so easy to mistake for fraud.
Why now: People are warning each other about emails that are hard to distinguish from phishing scams.
Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 8 snapshots from 10 h ago to 24 min ago.
Evidence
- Bank email today... * Shows up in Gmail inbox as coming from "statements" * No sender icon * No header image * No sign off * Unprofessional, difficult to read wall of text * Poor punctuation * email comes from a different domain to website—xyz.bank vs xyzbank.com.au. Why? Reeks… · thefathippy@mastodon.world · 1
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