The UK's Central Bank, the Bank of England, has been the victim of an attempted e-mail banking fraud, reporting that it had intercepted over 100,000 e-mails sent out under its name in an attempt to 'harvest' individuals' banking details.
Other British banks have recently been suffering from similar attempts to dupe their customers into giving out their personal banking details. In the Bank of England's case, the e-mails, which purport to come from a Bank of England administrator, instruct recipients to download a file attachment allegedly designed to protect individuals' banking details from fraudsters.
A spokeswoman from the bank said technicians were working with the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit to determine what the file attachment might be capable of, and who may have sent it. "It appears to come from somebody outside the UK," the spokeswoman said. The email address used - admin@bankofengland.co.uk - does not exist.
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