If I get anything from Barclays it goes straight into the bin, and when I signed up for my Alliance & Leicester bank account, I used a new email address and the only company who knows it is A&L.

The emails are getting more and more genuine-looking, but its a case of if you get an email from your bank, dont click on the link in the email and in a new tab, enter the url of the bank and log in that way.