Abbey Nationl Message Service Alert - Abbey Phishing Scams

Abbey


Date Reported: 22nd February 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Abbey Nationl Message Service Alert

Apparent Sender:

Abbey

Return Address:

Abbey National Plc < customer.alert@abbey.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.terre-de-caprices.fr/ components/com_poll/ images/abbeyonline_ my_account.co.uk.html

Location:

Germany

Scam number:

aa-8771

Comments:

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

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

The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "https://myonlineaccounts2. abbeynational.co.uk/ CentralLogonWeb/Logon?action=prepare".

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 REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual Abbey URL.

"You recently scheduled a payment for your abbey online account."

Dear Valued Customer

You recently scheduled a payment for your abbey online account. We sent a confirmation of this scheduled payment to your secure Message Center Inbox at our Web site.

To view this message, simply go to our abbey Web site (at https://myonlineaccounts2. abbeynational.co.uk/ CentralLogonWeb/Logon?action=prepare if you usually reach our site that way), log in and click the "New Messages" icon.

Thank you for choosing Abbey National Plc®

Online Customer Service

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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