Just received a text message on my mobile claiming it was from HSBC: Our security team have tried to contact you regarding your online account. Log In via the secure link http://209.177.93.44 to reactivate. Please blacklist this IP address as it is clearly a scam.
Received the following via text message yesterday too: Our security team have tried to contact you regarding your online account. Log In via the secure link http://209.177.93.44 to reactivate.
http://209.177.93.144 is not secure (http addresses are not secure, only https addresses are). No bank or payment related company would ever ask you to use a non-secure site to check financially related details of any kind, so this is not HSBC). DO NOT USE THIS LINK AT ALL! Call your own bank on a trusted number or send a secure message via your account if you want to check anything about your own bank accounts etc..
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