Customers of the Bank of Bermuda have been given a renewed warning to keep their account details secret following a spate of bogus e-mails arriving on the Island designed to trick people into giving out their account numbers and passwords.

Both the bank and the Bermuda Police Service have issued separate warnings to the public.

As reported in on Thursday there has been a so-called ?phishing? attack, where e-mails have arrived at addresses across the Island bearing the bank?s logo and inviting customers to click-on to another weblink where they can view a new security zone.

But the con-trick is actually a cleverly disguised attempt to elicit personal bank details which can then be used to empty money from a customer?s account.

Bank of Bermuda has sent out its own warning to customers to beware of the trick and not to give out any banking information to such an e-mail requested. The bank?s head of personal financial services Richard Brown said there are also tell-tale signs that such an e-mail is fake ? including the misspelling of the site?s name ?bankofbermuda.com? with a zero instead of an ?o? in the middle making it appear as ?bank0fbermuda.com?.

The fake website appears to have been set up in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, and it was swiftly closed down by the Bank of Bermuda once it was made aware of the scam e-mails.

In a statement the Bermuda Police Service Fraud Unit said: ?We would advise the public not to respond to an e-mail circulating locally claiming to be from the security department of the Bank of Bermuda, regarding measures taken to increase the security level of on-line banking, as its source and intent is not genuine.?

Anyone with information about the scam is asked to contact the Fraud Unit on 295-0011. Concerned Bank of Bermuda customers can also call the Easylink Online Services Team on 299-5959.