If you suspect that you've been the victim of a phishing scam, let your bank know immediately.
Rather than the phishing scam it might at first appear to be, these really are successfully changed account notifications.
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The theft is thought to have involved a phishing scam, whereby fraudsters stole password details by creating a bogus websites or messages that mimic legitimate ones.
In the past two years, the scheme has been blighted by upsets including the re-sale of used carbon offsets, a phishing scam, hacking and continuing VAT fraud.
My first reaction was that this was yet another phishing scam, designed to take me to a site where I would hand over my Twitter credentials like a mug.
Some users criticised Twitter's email, suggesting it looked like a "phishing scam" - a message that impersonates an official email in an attempt to trick users into giving up personal details.
Warnings have been repeated about an e-mail phishing scam in which recipients are told they are due a tax refund and asked to fill in an online form with bank or credit card details.
Phishing is a scam where criminals attempt to steal your financial information through the use of email or a fake website.
Web sites are layering on more security to fight the common Web scam known as phishing, in which spammers lure people into logging on to a bogus site and steal their user names and passwords.
It is not clear whether the new lists was part of the same phishing attack that collected the Hotmail addresses or a separate scam.
For example, in a standard phishing operation, an organized crime group might commission the creation of a scam web page and contact a secondary broker to get a list of thousands of email addresses.
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