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04/06/2009, 8:43 Weegie Joined on 19/12/2007 Perigord Vert Posts 175 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? Just looked too and it isn't showing today.  I have had it come up a few times though.     Report

04/06/2009, 8:52 nomoss Joined on 25/07/2007 Languedoc Posts 191 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? I just phoned my branch; they said it is genuine. I lodged a formal complaint, which I shall repeat in letter form.    Report

04/06/2009, 8:55 Hereford Joined on 27/08/2004 Posts 332 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? We were telephoned by our branch and asked to go in.  Apparently they are supposed to check every three years that you still exist and are you!  That is what we were told...We had to produce copies of passports.  All done very simply in five minutes. H. Edit:  If they had emailed we would have gone to the branch - we would never reply to an email from them.    Report

04/06/2009, 8:56 just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Dordogneshire/Charente borders Posts 1,227 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? As per my previous postings, the e-mail (in my case) was completely genuine, all based on previous communication by letter from the bank, confirmed when visiting the bank and when speaking to a bank advisor appointed to deal with English customers. He confirmed the e-mail as a genuine request for additional information from English customers regarding their transactions and that it would follow up on all its english customers. Regulations were to blame, not the bank, who were merely following orders the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, and blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday    Report

04/06/2009, 9:02 Cjlaws Joined on 19/03/2006 76270 Posts 249 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? This appears on Crédit Agricole Normandie Seine's site: Alerte Phishing ! Si vous recevez un email vous demandant de vous connecter à l'espace sécurisé du Crédit Agricole, supprimez-le sans répondre à l'émetteur. Ne cliquez surtout pas sur le lien. En savoir plus sur le phishing CJL    Report

04/06/2009, 16:57 andyh4 Joined on 15/06/2005 Cologne and Ardèche Posts 1,230 Re: Credit Agricole Scam?  nomoss wrote: andyh4, It is addressed to me personally, but I don't agree that that in itself makes it genuine.   Well for the moment at least it does mean that it is virtually certain to be genuine (never say never).   For a phisher to match the correct name (as used by the bank) to an e-mail address (which may or may not be obvious from the email address) takes some effort.  Now take into account that they are going to send it on the off-chance that the recipient does bank with the institution they are claiming to be, and that many will (like you) question the authenicity, and you will see that the hit rate will be very small for a return of having sent out a single e-mail.  they could be creating mails for weeks just to get one victim.  That's why they use the impersonal address rather than a specific, which can be sent out simultaneously to 100,000 email addresses and with a possibility of picking up perhaps a handful of victims.   However I am sure that one day your view will be the correct one. Andy    Report

05/06/2009, 8:52 bixy Joined on 12/09/2004 Posts 369 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? We received a letter several months ago from CA asking for copies of goodness knows what to be sent by mail. I threw the letter in the bin, on the basis that the bank has a lot more money than I do and if they want me to write to them to provide this kind of bureaucratic nonsense they can provide a rely paid envelope. We never heard anymore, which just confirms my view that these letters are sent out by a computer by the shedload and any  replies received are just parked in a room somewhere. Patrick    Report

05/06/2009, 9:40 Chancer Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 4,063 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? Not hearing any more after several months does not indicate anything at all in France, I am still receiving bills from hospital treatment in 2007. I took my stuff into the branch and made them photocopy it all, big mistake, now my statements go to England at great expense (theirs) so to find my balance I have to go in the branch where they now insist on photocopying my pasport every time. I have given up trying to convince them that I live in France, according to them I dont and I never have, they have no records at all of me at my address in France etc etc, when I whipped out my cheque book showing my French address they had no response other than "informatiquement that is not possible".    Report

05/06/2009, 20:03 NormanH Joined on 10/04/2008 Posts 1,621 Re: Credit Agricole Scam? I had the same email (I am in the same region) The bank has a genuine need for the information, but I was shocked  et the suggestion that I should "Envoi par E -mail des documents scannés à l’adresse suivante : infoclient@ca-languedoc.fr" This is the same bank that sent me a letter to the address I have lived at for a long time, a house bought with a mortgage from them, asking me for a 'justicatif de domicile' 15 years after I first opened the account. When I asked them what they would accept they said 'a letter from a bank', so I said would they accept this one. No they said. It had to be from another bank....    Report

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