Fraudulent Email Addresses 3 (AccessBank)

I came across another fraudulent email in my spam folder. Fraudsters try to mimic various banks. This case was targeted at Access Bank Plc customers. It is a false debit alert and as we can see from the circled sender email, it is not from the bank. The sender shows lmakubalo@gmail.com which is not the related to Access Bank Plc. On clicking links in such emails, users are usually redirected to fraudulent websites that are built to mimic the bank's website. Unsuspecting users end up entering their online login details on the fake websites and thus their accounts become vulnerable to the fraudsters.
Remember, your first level security is to check the sender of any email. Then avoid clicking email links to get to your online banking account. It is better to visit the website of the bank by typing the address yourself on your browser.

Fraudulent Email Addresses 2 (FirstBank)

I came across another fraudulent email in my mailbox and decided to share it too. Always check the full info on the sender. Note that Yahoo shows the real email address that sent the email surrounded by these signs < >. <mahesh.r@arvind.net> is the sender, while the part that shows FirstAlert@FirstBankNigeria.com is just a name given by the sender, not the actual mailbox it was sent from.
So let's stay safe, be careful and mind which emails we follow up with.

Fraudulent Email Addresses

Fraudsters usually send emails trying to mimic banks and other financial institutes. An example is the email snapshot above. An email claiming to be a debit alert from UBA (United Bank for Africa), but when you closely examine the email address it was sent from <pnihoubad@hodship.net> which is not the email address of the bank. The first part "Udirect@ubagroup.com" is just a name given by the fraudster, to deceive people to assume it's from the bank.
Always check which email address emails are from. The above snapshot is from a Yahoo mailbox. Other email providers show it in different ways. For some, you might need to pass your mouse over the sender's name, to reveal the email address it is from.

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Due to the alarming rate of bank fraud going on, it is essential for people to be sensitised on how best to protect themselves from fraudsters. We would be writing on new tips and exposing common fraud patterns. Feel free to narrate your encounters so we can help and others can benefit from past cases. Your editor is OGUNLANA OLUSHOLA GABRIEL, who was awarded Best Student Programmer in Nigeria NACOSS National 2008. You can check on Google to confirm. Nice having you here.