Barclays Bank Scams

I have monitored the so-called ‘Phishing’ scams for a couple of years now. This is partly because I’m writing a book about “Making The Most of the Internet”.

Over the last month, I have had 48 e-mails, as opposed to two for any other bank in the UK. For the last few days they have been about five or six a day for Barclays. The only other ones I’ve had are for PayPal, but that is because they are the biggest on-line bank in the world and they are declining.

The question is why are Barclays the only UK bank for which significant scams are being tried? Could it be that they are the only one with inadequate security.