Email from 'Natwest' to update my online banking details

[StealthPolarBear]

Anyway, I have had two in the last few days, one was quite realistic, came from [email protected] etc etc, the other one they hadn't even tried - it came from "[email protected]" and included such lines as "If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service. "
Anyway, it came to [email protected], which is NOT my email address, even if I had been BCC-ed it would have come TO my address. Just curious how they did this - any ideas?

I get loads of these from HBSC, Natwest and Halifax. They come into my work email, which means they manage to get through the NHS firewall. I forward them to the various banks fraud depts.

My mum has just been fleeced too FIN - and with the Halifax - has got her money back. They got into her online account and changed her address to somewhere in Wolverhampton

Greyriverside, right, your explanation makes sense - i'll have to try it out myself

stealthpolarbear, to receive an email, the sender has to send it to your exact address, even a fullstop in the wrong place will mean you wont get the email. However you can send the one email to a group of people and if you dont want everyone in the group to see who else the email has been sent to then you use the BCC in this case you as the receiver of the email wont see your address listed at all. The address in the To part could be [email protected] and you would still receive it.

HTH

Yes, I thought that was the case. However, I thought, when you BCC'd it.......
ah no, I am wrong and you're right, just thinking about an example
Mystery solved, thanks very much everyone!

Forward ANY dodgy banking emails to [email protected]

It helps them to take action to stop them with any that are reported.

www.banksafeonline.org.uk/report_scam.html

I've been getting one regularly, purporting to be from Halifax. Big giveaway- I have no account with Halifax. Your bank will never send emails to you so ignore and delete.

OOh thanks for that nonickname I send some of mine there