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Date Reported: 4th August 2009 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
ACCOUNT UPDATE ALERT NOTIFICATION |
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Apparent Sender: |
Alliance & Leicester |
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Return Address: |
accountsupdate@aero.dreamhost.com |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.qasremobl.com/media/www/Home/internal-r edirects.aspx/mybankrhnlogin&/alliance&lei cester.co.uk/ |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) Log In To Online Banking |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
3020-43256-217910 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Alliance & Leicester by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Alliance & Leicester 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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IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR ACCOUNT
DEAR CUSTOMER,
Financial institutions around the world have always been subject to attempts by criminals to try and defraud money from them and their customers. These attempts can occur in a number of ways (e.g. credit card fraud, telephone banking or Internet scams). As a part of our ongoing commitment to provide the "Best Possible" service and Protection to all our Members in year "2009", we are now requirin...
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