It doesn't matter if you receive posts from a bank, in your daily or weekly public announcement services as an announcement. But it does matter of course, if the announcement is addressed to you personally with your full name and postal address!
People accept only personal-sent announcements from those who know and after having them requested this service from those advertisers, by replying to a coupon, or any form else.
To receive an email from a bank that you don't have anything to do with it, is "worst scam"!
The following email I've received from a bank that I don't know and I've no any account in it, will give you the picture about how this scam is working, why and from where it has been arrived.
Before getting to the email here's a button logo from that email 
From: Banking-Service accounts @ rbc. com (separated without the <> so as not to appear as a link)
To: my email address
Dear Royal Bank customer,
We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your Royal Bank Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party.
Protecting the security of your account and of the Royal Bank network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features.
To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised:
1. Login to your Royal Bank Internet Banking account. In case you are not enrolled for Internet Banking, you will have to fill in all the required information, including your client card number or business card number and your password.
2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check you account profile to make sure not changes have been made. If any unauthorized activity has taken place on your account! ! , report this to
Royal Bank staff immediately.
To get started, please click the link below:
https : // www1 . royalbank . com/ cgi- bin /rbaccess
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire Royal Bank system. Thank you for attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Royal Bank Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
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Well, isn't it amazing to receive such emails from those banks while you don't have accounts in them?
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Hi Peace Blog,
Just an FYI for you, the mail message you recieved is what's called a Phishing Attack. I used to work for that bank in the Online Division. Essentially, the email sender has spoofed an @rbc.com email address and has sent a message to you and most likly 5 - 10 million other people.
This bank has over 14 million customers, so the chances of this email getting in front of a customer is quite likely.
So, what if an RBC client clicks the link? Well, the sign-in page is spoofed as well, so that if you were to type in your id and password, the fake site would capture that information and then use it to log into the account and transfer money out of it.
Take my word for it, the bank's do not want this type of email going out. In fact, any email correspondence with this bank will never include links to the website. They actually ask you to type in the address in your browser.
Just thought you should know.
Thank you for this invaluable information though I know certainly what it takes to reply to such scam.
All those scam tricks are clear, but unfortunately some people don't know that.
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