In December 2007, ClearMyMail customers received an average of 18 fake NatWest emails, 12 fake Citibank emails, 5 fake HSBC emails, 3 fake Abbey emails and 2 fake Lloyds TSB emails. NatWest accounted 41 percent of all phishing emails blocked by ClearMyMail, followed by Citbank with 27 percent, HSBC with 11 percent, Abbey with 6 percent, Lloyds TSB with 4 percent, Pay Pal 2 with 2 percent, RBS with 1 percent, Nationwide Building Society 1 percent, Halifax 0.08 percent and MBNA 0.5 percent.„Phishing emails are very well constructed and often look exactly like a legitimate message from the bank”, says ClearMyMail’s managing director Dan Field.
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