{Slightly ot} Responding to bank phishing requests?

[Roland Perry]

In article 
<37E80E80B681A24B8F768D607373CA8004219BDF@largo.campus.ncl.ac.uk>, C R 
Ritson <c.r.ritson@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
>Three of us here were commenting on the increasing fidelity of purported
>re-validation requests that attempt to get you to divulge bank details
>to criminal third parties.
>
>Would there be any point in poisoning the hacker's list of target
>accounts?
>
>How sparse are bank account numbers?
>
>How easily detected would the fakes be?
>
>Would the appearance (I presume) of bank transfer requests for funds
>from nonexistent accounts cause the perpetrator to attract unwelcome
>attention from officialdom any quicker than is normally the case?

Vigilantism is rarely useful or officially appreciated, and can lead to 
nasty accidents.
-- 
Roland Perry