Standard Life Share Portal

[Reentrant]

Just received a genuine-looking November Dividend email from Standard
Life, with links to https://www.standardlifeshareportal.com/ where you
can register or check your account. I do have SL shares from when they
demutualised.

However the link gives a certificate error so I suspected phishing. But
that link also appears on their website at the top of
http://www.standardlife.com/shareholders/share_portal.html

What gives?

[Reentrant]

Post by Reentrant
Just received a genuine-looking November Dividend email from Standard
Life, with links to https://www.standardlifeshareportal.com/ where you
can register or check your account. I do have SL shares from when they
demutualised.
However the link gives a certificate error so I suspected phishing. But
that link also appears on their website at the top of
http://www.standardlife.com/shareholders/share_portal.html
What gives?

On further digging it looks like a DNS problem. WHOIS sites report no IP
address for the domain name.

[Clifford Frisby]

Post by Reentrant

Post by Reentrant
Just received a genuine-looking November Dividend email from Standard
Life, with links to https://www.standardlifeshareportal.com/ where you
can register or check your account. I do have SL shares from when they
demutualised.
However the link gives a certificate error so I suspected phishing. But
that link also appears on their website at the top of
http://www.standardlife.com/shareholders/share_portal.html
What gives?

On further digging it looks like a DNS problem. WHOIS sites report no IP
address for the domain name.

I don't think it's the job of whois to report IP addresses for domains. How
about a DNS query?

standardlifeshareportal.com can be whois'd, but fails to be nslookup'd,
which I think is in order.

www.standardlifeshareportal.com can be nslookup'd but fails to be whois'd,
which I think is also in order.

The security certificate was broken in some way. It looks as though it is
now fixed.

[Andrew Jones]

;94075']Just received a genuine-looking November Dividend email fro
Standard
Life, with links to https://www.standardlifeshareportal.com/ where yo
can register or check your account. I do have SL shares from when the
demutualised.
However the link gives a certificate error so I suspected phishing. Bu
that link also appears on their website at the top of
http://www.standardlife.com/shareholders/share_portal.html
What gives?
--
Reentrant

I think you should contact the company which issued the dividend. the
will sort out everything


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Andrew Jones