Customers of Allied Irish Banks should be aware of a fraudulent e-mail circulating at present supposedly from the bank's internet banking division, aimed at people who do their banking online.
There are many emails of this type circulating allegedly from their bank, and the FBI recently advised banking customers in the United States to disregard mails of this type entirely.
Many people have responded to these apparently urgent requests in the past to enter their personal information, only to find their accounts have been emptied.
With the banking industry in crisis, clever criminals are attempting to cash in on the present uncertainty.