Scam ?

[BertiWooster]

Found the following in my email in box from -
Abbey Bank ( [email protected] )

'' Dear customer,

Your access to Online Services is Locked due to a mis-match of access codes between your login and Tan details. To enable you continue accessing your online account it will only take you few minutes to re-activate your account. Follow the reference below and you will be guided to where you can instantly activate your account.

Important Notice:- You are strictly advised to match your details correctly to avoid service denial. ''

Then asking me to go to a website to put it right .
Obviously a scam , given that although i have an old account with abbey , containing a very small amount of dosh - i have no on line accounts .

What were they after , do you think they were just taking a wild punt ?
Has anyone received a similiar message ?

[cheries]

I work for a big website agency, we create and maintain the websites for most of the UK's banks and insurers. The keystroke recording spy software that sp refers to is responsible for some of the most serious fraud in this country.

[birdie1971]

You can do a few things to protect yourself on-line. One of the best ways is to use a program called "Sandboxie". You run this program before starting your internet browser. What it does is run your browser in "Sandbox" mode. Effectively, your browser is locked out from accessing your operating system, so even if you inadvertently download some spyware, tojan, etc. it cannot infect your operating system.
You can find it here....

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-brow ser-protection-utility.htm

Best of all, it's free.