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Should I inform companies about spam impersonation?


I got an e-mail pretending to be from the Royal Bank of scotaland today, its quite obviously a phishing attack or somesuch but it did look legit enough to fool an ineperianced user.
Should I try and inform the Royal Bank of Scotland or is there alternativly a way to forward it to Yahoo to report?

Definitely report it. Most companies have internal fraud investigators and encourage people to let them know about phishing attempts. From the RBS website:

"At The Royal Bank of Scotland we will never ask our customers for any personal information by e-mail. If you receive such an email, before deleting it, please attach it to a new email and send it to phishing@rbs.co.uk

"If you think you may have responded to a phishing email with your Online Banking security details, please call us immediately on 0845 600 8212 (+44 131 317 4597 from outside the UK). We are open 24 hours a day (calls may be recorded)."

Even if you didn't respond, let RBS know so they can take action to shut down the bogus site.

http://www.rbs.co.uk/global/f/security/s...

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