Across the pond

After getting back home from St Marylebone Church I checked my email. My bank tells me that someone has been trying to get unauthorised access to my account. If I want to get the details I must get in touch with postmaster@city.ac.uk. But of course he will have gone home by now.

What on earth can have happened. Does it mean someone in the accounts department of City University has got hold of my bank details and is trying to augment their salary by milking my bank account? If so I must urge them to join the trade union, where they can argue their case for more money.

Or is it yet another scam, like the message from PayPal that a purchaser is claiming that I have not paid his bill. Whereas I have never purchased anything from PayPal. Or like the messages I get from the Halifax and NatWest telling me that someone is trying to access my account, although I have never had an account with them?

All this is worrying. Because internet banking saves me time and the banks money. And my belief is that it is no more, or less subject to fraud, than credit cards or non-internet banking.

But I don’t really know.

But I have checked my bank account and my modest credit balance is as yet undisturbed by any un-authorised transactions.