ACCOUNT REQUIRED ATTENTION - Bank of America Phishing Scams

Bank of America


Date Reported: 11th February 2017	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

ACCOUNT REQUIRED ATTENTION

Apparent Sender:

Bank of America

Return Address:

securityservicse@mancol.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://tsekeris.com/images/bankofamericalgr/

Anchor text of URLs:

1)
http://bankofamericaonline.com/onlinesecurity
/update

Location:

NUREMBERG, BAYERN, GERMANY

Scam number:

25778-298865-657678

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Bank of America 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 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 NOTIFICATION: SECURITY UPDATE
REQUIRED

Technical services of Bank of America online
are carrying out a planned software upgrade.
We earnestly ask you to visit
the following link to start the procedure of
confirmation on customers data security.

To get started, please click the link below:

http://bankofamericaonline.com/onlinesecurit
y/update

This instruction has been sent to all Bank
of America Online valued users and is
obligatory to follow and ...

Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404

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