Banking Errors

Grandad July 9th, 2007

I have just had a very nice e-mail from Allied Irish Banks

Dear Allied Irish Banks Member,

This is your official notification from Allied Irish Banks. Your online has expired.
If you want to continue using our service you have to renew your online. If not, your online will be limited and deleted.

To continue click here and complete the renew form with your current information.

Thank you,
Copyright Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. 1995

My reply:

Dear Allied Irish Banks,

Thank you very much for your e-mail dated today informing me that my online has expired.

I think you must be mistaken though, as I am still online so it seems to be still alive. And I am a bit confused as to why I should be prevented from banking with you if my internet connection fails? Surely I can walk into the nearest branch?

I am a bit puzzled too by the bit about my “online being limited and deleted”. Surely if you delete my online, than that is a limitation in itself? It can’t be both limited and deleted. That’s like saying it would be a little bit dead. Or would it be dead, but still a little bit live?

Please clarify this as I am rightly confused.

Yours sincerely,

Grandad

P.S. I tried your link, but it didn’t bring me to https://internetbanking.aib.ie/. Are you aware of this error? I think you should fix it straight away.

P.P.S. This is 2007. I think you need to check your calendar. You missed out on the Millennium. It was great craic.

P.P.P.S. I don’t even have an account with you….

spam
Comments(18)

18 Responses to “Banking Errors”

# The Swiss Job on 09 Jul 2007 at 2:47 pm

Seriously dodge Grandad. You might have been spammed? And that’s not a can of luncheon meat. Can’t see Allied Irish Bank now and not think of Ross O’Carroll Kelly. He was always going for a quick “Allied Irish” when things were quiet!
# Grandad on 09 Jul 2007 at 2:54 pm

Yes. I thought it was ever so slightly suspect myself [hence the category I filed it under].

I must get to read this Ross O’Carroll Kelly fella. I’ve heard about him from a few sources now.

I’d never heard of an ‘Allied Irish’ before. I think I just wet myself again…..!
# b3n on 09 Jul 2007 at 4:44 pm

Sounds like someone in Nigeria is fishing for money.
# Grandad on 09 Jul 2007 at 5:05 pm

Actually, I was thinking of going into their site and entering some random information. It’ll take them ages to work out that I don’t have an account there….
# Grannymar on 09 Jul 2007 at 5:24 pm

Do you have money?

Any chsance of a loan?
# Grandad on 09 Jul 2007 at 5:33 pm

Actually, Grannymar, I’m skint. I look on this as a blessing as now I have no money to worry about.

So I’m afraid a loan is out of the Q. Unless you want my Allied Irish Bank account details [that I don't seem to have]?
# Primal Sneeze on 09 Jul 2007 at 5:38 pm

Nice one, Grandad! Now the spammers know they have valid email address.

Expect more.
# Grandad on 09 Jul 2007 at 5:54 pm

How? I didn’t reply to their e-mail.

Incidentally, the mail apparently came from ‘service@aib.ie’ [which I very much doubt]. Ron says it came from ‘mail.peaveycorp.com’ whoever they are.

Unless, of course they read this blog and see their letter printed. But that won’t be any good to them, because they don’t know which of my thousands of e-mail addresses it arrived at.

I set up thousands of addresses to confuse the CIA by the way.
# Spam Spam Spam and more Spam on 09 Jul 2007 at 6:14 pm

[...] Head Rambles has a very amusing post about a badly worded phishing mail. As can be expected he’s taken a potential annoyance and turned it into a hilarious incident. [...]
# irishflirtysomething on 09 Jul 2007 at 7:07 pm

I got my first spam fish a few weeks go, it was actually kind of exciting.
# Jefferson Davis on 09 Jul 2007 at 7:13 pm

I love these enamoured emails! Nigeria needs you, Grandad!
# baino on 09 Jul 2007 at 8:28 pm

My best friend once lost $9,000 with one of these things. “A little bit dead” – very excellent!
# The CIA on 09 Jul 2007 at 8:34 pm

We are watching all of them. We know which ones you use and which ones were meant to deceive us.
You don’t really think Bertie got re-elected on his own do you? We have our ways, old man.
# Ian on 10 Jul 2007 at 6:22 am

Grandad,

I got offered at least 37 million yesterday. Maybe they were able to make such a generous offer from the money they had taken out of your account.

I have a Hotmail address with its filter set to ‘Exclusive’ that I use to respond to such things (nothing gets through). I usually try to be helpful by pointing out spelling and grammatical errors and inquire after the weather in west Africa. Politeness cost nothing.
# chris on 10 Jul 2007 at 7:34 am

Definitely a scam, would you have the address of the site?
# Grandad on 10 Jul 2007 at 8:37 am

@Flirty – You badly need to get out more.

@CIA – You think you are watching all of them. And Bertie got in because of a dumb electorate. Don’t try and claim credit for that.

@Ian – I gave them Bertie’s banking details, so that’s probably out of his account. Keep the receipt for the tribunal..

@Chris – http://24.150.17.244/m/v/ I just tried it but it’s dead. Has the AIB gone bust?
# chris on 10 Jul 2007 at 8:57 am

sounds like the phishers got busted!
# Grandad on 10 Jul 2007 at 9:15 am

It was fun while it lasted.

Until the next one……