On 24/02/12 10:05, Clive Page wrote:


The other problem is the stupid behaviour of financial institutions. For
example I use Nationwide Building Society, who have a perfectly sensible
domain name of nationwide.co.uk, but their on-line banking system uses a
different domain name (nationnet.something if I remember correctly) and
when they send out mass emails these appear to come from yet another
domain. These emails look, at first sight, just like a phishing
attempt, and I was very suspicious. So I reported it to Nationwide.

It used to be something really stupid like olb2.nationet.com it recently
changed to https://onlinebanking.nationwide.co.uk/
.. The really annoying thing about Nationwide is that trying to access
the main website using Firefox and Linux it takes forever to load. Which
is why I need to bookmark that obscure internet banking url



They confirmed it was genuine, so I pointed out that using any domain
other than nationwide.co.uk was simply unnecessary and stupid. I
couldn't get this simple point to be accepted by their management, and
after several rounds, I gave up. So now, all customers of Nationwide
have become used to having that institution use at least a handful of
different and unpredictable domain names, and so they won't be surprised
if the next phishing attempt involves yet another one. Sigh.




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djc