Phishing

I received an e-mail notification from "my bank" claiming that I had exceeded the number of failed attempts to access my account with them. This might have led me to try to resolve the problem . . . if only the phishers had actually used the correct bank when they sent me the e-mail.



Online Security Notification

Dear LaSalle Bank Member,

To prevent unauthorized access to your LaSalle Internet Banking account, we have limited the number of failed login attempts. You have exceeded this number of attempts.

As an additional security measure your access to Online Banking has been limited.

Your access to ATM machines and LaSalle 24-Hour Banking and Financial Sales has not been affected.

To restore your account access, please follow the link below:

https://onlinebanking.banklasalle.ca/

Thank you for using LaSalle Bank.

I don't use "LaSalle Bank". I have never even heard of them. After reading this, I immediately sent out a phisher notification to gmail. This is the first time I've ever been targeted by these assholes, but I've heard stories of this happening all the time. I'm in the finance department for an ISP, so I make countless amounts of calls to people who's auto-payments decline due to a change in credit/debit/checking account being changed. This is one of the main reasons they have to change all their information. Because they were dumb enough to fall for this ruse.