ACCOUNT VALIDATION REQUIRED [#9384-BDA] - BARCLAYS Phishing Scams

BARCLAYS


Date Reported: 2nd August 2014	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

ACCOUNT VALIDATION REQUIRED [#9384-BDA]

Apparent Sender:

BARCLAYS

Return Address:

secure@barclays-online.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://barclays-gb.com/email_identifierI3843280-13
81374924_347482/

Anchor text of URLs:

No anchor text attached to link

Location:

ROUBAIX, NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS, FRANCE

Scam number:

22770-437827-83516

Comments:

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

BARCLAYS 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.

DEAR CUSTOMER,

Our automated system recently notified you
by SMS that you will be receiving an email
from us. This was sent just to
confirm this email is genuine. Nothing to
worry about, just to inform you we have
noticed alot of recent IP address
changes when logging in to your online
service. For your own protection we ask you
complete some security steps to
confirm your identity and allow us to match
up your details below.

Please follow the link below to complet...

Website:

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

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