Scary scam

I had one today which looked Totally genuine from Halifax Building Society. There were contact numbers to ring if you thought it was a scam, no spelling mistakes and looked totally professional.

I clicked on the word Halifax next to sender and it gave some dodgy email address. We don’t have a Halifax account anyway.

air gap>>i you dont know it pull the plug really

Tizliz it’s a browser based scam, hence the security check not finding anything. If you close your browser it will disappear. If you shut down using ctrl+alt-del with your browser still open then it will still be there when you boot up again. Clear your cache to make sure it’s not hanging around.

It was Microsoft’s site which said to use control / alt / delete.

Gone now but was most strange.

Oh. I didn’t mean you were wrong to do that, just wanted to explain why it was still there when you went back in.

I had real problems as I turned the brightness down instead of the sound - don’t use MS very often - so I couldn’t see what I was doing and turned it on and off several times thinking it had given up completely then I realised what I had done 🙄🙄 so I didn’t know which action had sorted it

I almost fell for this scam, until I phoned and they put me through to the 'Microsoft' fraud dept (not), who suggested that I prevented bank staff stealing from my account by transferring money to a dummy account to catch them, which of course I didn't do! I can understand why vulnerable people could be taken in, he was very convincing.
I then had notification from Barclays that unlawful payments had been detected and stopped. The Bank were amazing but it was worrying!