a new document has arrived - Halifax Paper-free Service Phishing Scams

Halifax Paper-free Service


Date Reported: 2nd August 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

a new document has arrived

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Paper-free Service

Return Address:

Not found

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.incredimail.com/?ida9268&did500&am
p;ppd

Anchor text of URLs:

1) URL link is in form of image

Location:

(UNKNOWN CITY?), (UNKNOWN COUNTRY?)

Scam number:

17900-274511-611773

Comments:

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

Halifax Paper-free Service 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.

The following document(s) have arrived in
your document store:

- 1 statement (If this is for your Paper-free
Credit Card statement, payment may

be due. Your statement may also contain
Notice of Default Sums) To view your new

document(s) this you are to download the
DOCUMENT ATTACHED to this message,

FILL in the REQUIRED details as it is in
file, then sign in to the Halifax online
service.

**PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, AS WE
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RESPON...

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Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 400

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