Account Preference Change Notification - Wachovia Phishing Scams

Wachovia


Date Reported: 31st October 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Account Preference Change Notification

Apparent Sender:

Wachovia

Return Address:

wachoviaAlerts.020469.419838385@alerts.wachovia.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://authservice-onlineservices-wachovia-com-pre
sentlogin.renabucil.com/wachovia=authsecure/wachov
ia=authservice/wachovia.com/login.php

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to update your account!

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

13693-191429-462415

Comments:

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

Wachovia 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.

ACCOUNT PREFERENCE CHANGE NOTIFICATION
Thank you for banking online at Wachovia®
Online Banking
Our Records indicate that you or someone
recently added or made a change
to your mailing preferences.
This notification is to confirm that you
initiated this change.
If you feel you have recieved this email in
error and did not
add or change preferences for you accounts
please follow the link below to enter online
services confirmation at wachovia.

Click here to upd...

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Website:

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