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Date Reported: 2nd November 2009 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Account Security Upgrade |
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Apparent Sender: |
Abbey National Plc |
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Return Address: |
security@abbey.co.uk |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.tu.ac.th/org/arts/ling/journal/Logon.ph p |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) Clicking here |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
5366-73596-277412 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Abbey National Plc by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Abbey National Plc 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.
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EV SSL CERTIFICATION UPDATE
Dear Abbey Member,
Due to the high number of fraud attempts and phishing scams, it has been decided to implement EV SSL Certification on this Internet Banking website.
The use of EV SSL certification works with high security Web browsers to clearly identify whether the site belongs to the company or is another site imitating that company's site.
It has been introduced to protect our clients against phishing and other...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404 |
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