Account Locked: Unlock Your Account - Bank of America Alert Phishing Scams

Bank of America Alert


Date Reported: 1st October 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Account Locked: Unlock Your Account

Apparent Sender:

Bank of America Alert

Return Address:

unlock.alert@ealerts.bankofamerica.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://hmongnetwork.com/forums/onlineid-sessionloa
d/cgi-bin/sso.login.controllernoscript=true/sessio
ndid#35454893_Secured152388884&Update/index.ht
ml

Anchor text of URLs:

1)
http://hmongnetwork.com/forums/onlineid-sessi
onload/cgi-bin/sso.login.controllernoscript=t
rue/sessiondid#35454893_Secured152388884&
Update/index.html">Unlock, 2) Unlock Your
Account

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

13094-179631-446810

Comments:

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

Bank of America Alert never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!

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.

Account

Locked: Unlock Your Account

We're sorry, but you reached the maximum
number of attempts allowed to correctly

answer your SiteKey challenge questions the
last time you tried to sign in. For

your protection, we have locked your account.
We do not recognize the computer

you are using. Please continue with the
verification process so that we can

confirm your identity from this unrecognized
computer.

Unlock

Your Account
...

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