Nationwide Building Society SPAM
With virus and trojan SPAM getting more and more advanced it’s sometimes difficult to spot a genuine email from an email that is attempting to steal your identity or compromise your computer.
Today I received a genuine email from Nationwide Building Society that goes to great lengths to try and convince you that it is a genuine email from the Nationwide. So much so that you begin to question it. They even include a post code stamp as a guarantee that it is legitimate (although all this actually does is legitimise me and not the sender.)
Nationwide are clearly driven by marketing droids that believe the more domains they have the better.
The email is from Nationwide@nationwidebuildingsociety-email.co.uk
The Reply To address is nationwidecampaigns@accessdorcan.co.uk
Within the email there are references to the following domains –
nationwide-members.co.uk
www.nationwidefootball.co.uk
All of the links actually link to http://nationwidebuildingsociety-email.co.uk/HS?a=DwerD1efdSDFsw34RSd@34)
despite the description of the link.
So, Nationwide have unwittingly made it harder to determine if something using a Nationwide lookalike domain name is legitimate or not because they are doing it themselves.
Why they couldn’t use football.nationwide.co.uk or members.nationwide.co.uk is beyond me. At least then the fact that it is a subdomain of a single nationwide.co.uk domain would add some reassurance.
Marketing Droids 1 – Common Sense 0