I decided to look in my Yahoo mailbox a short while ago. I don't go there very often but it's good for a laugh from time to time.

Two of the e-mails I received were from the Fifth Third Bank and Barclays Bank respectively, or at least that's what they wanted me to believe.

Now I don't know about you but if I'm going to attempt to scam all and sundry, I don't send two messages purporting to be from two different banks with exactly the same wording.
I'd have copied and pasted them to show you, but you see they're phishing aren't they, so they are not real text messages, just photos of text messages so that the real URLs don't stand out. They can't be copied and pasted.

In any case I'm not a customer of either of these banks, and even if I was there's no way I'm ever going to send whatever they were asking for via e-mail or through a form on a web site.
It's the first time anyone has tried a bank scam on me.

It did get me wondering what sort of success rate they have.

I get at least one of them every week; my address is on a public website you see. I'm inundated with spam.

Moi aussi, mon brave.

One of them today was entitled......Ta..ra!! You ready???........

Respiration...

So I took a breath...