Ive been sent a text from 'HSBC' asking me to go to a url and enter some information to unlock my account.
Obviously this isn't HSBC but I don't want to just go about my day, how can I report this website so to my best knowledge I've done what i can to help prevent vulnerable people from being scammed?
Posted Sep 28, 2019, 1:39 PM UTC
Though you can report this, unfortunately making any kind of report to authorities is unlikely to prevent others being scammed for a multitude of reasons - awareness is the only measure against these people.
Just warn others, make social media posts, do that sort of thing - it'd be much more effective.
Don't waste your time - these scams are entirely script based and they rotate to a new website every few hours. Ignore and move on.
The best place to report it is https://report.netcraft.com/report - they feed in to all the major browsers' safer browsing initiatives.
If you've received the same URL as I have, it has already been blocked.
HSBC and the police won't care - there's too many of them.
If you receive an HMRC scam, you can report it directly at https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing/report-hmrc-phishing-emails-texts-and-phone-call-scams
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Send an email and the link to HSBC fraud department. I got a similar thing for rbs and I don't even bank with them it was a spoof website.