2009 CUSTOMER SERVICE MESSAGE - Alliance Phishing Scams

Alliance


Date Reported: 21st July 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

2009 CUSTOMER SERVICE MESSAGE

Apparent Sender:

Alliance

Return Address:

services@nationwide.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.ocioubeda.com/index/secure.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to update your account

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

2741-38696-209476

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Alliance by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.

Alliance never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.

This is to inform you that your Alliance
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Leicester personalized Secure Messages
Center, click on the link below:

Click here to update your account

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Please do not reply to this email. This
mailbox is not monitored and you will not
receive a response. For assistence,
log in to your Alliance & Leicester Online
account and click the Help link located in
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