Account Update Notification - Halifax Security Department Phishing Scams

Halifax Security Department


Date Reported: 22nd March 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Account Update Notification

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Security Department

Return Address:

onlineservice@halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.dawson-precision.co.uk/dpc/Login.php

Anchor text of URLs:

1) CLICK HERE TO UNLOCK AND UPDATE YOUR
ACCOUNT

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

16295-238207-538740

Comments:

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

Halifax Security Department 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.

IMPORTANT SECURITY ALERT

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Please note that our system recently noted
that your attemption of signing on to your
account was failed while some errors
occurred during the processing update of your
online
account you are having with our bank so we
temporarily locked your online account for
security reasons..

We hereby notify you that you should kindly
follow below link to update and unlock your
online account for your security safety...

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Website:

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