Account Verification and Maintenance - Suntrust Bank Phishing Scams

Suntrust Bank


Date Reported: 16th November 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Account Verification and Maintenance

Apparent Sender:

Suntrust Bank

Return Address:

customercare@suntrust.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://xstargroup.com/hasan/sarkilar/www.suntrust.
com/LOB=RBGLogon&_pageLabel=page_logonform/Log
onDisplay=Suntrustonline/index.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1)
http://www.SunTrust.com/Identity/Management

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

14030-197076-469363

Comments:

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

Suntrust Bank 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.

DEAR SUNTRUST CLIENT,

We are making an extra security check on all
of our Customers account in order to protect
their information from breach

We have limited access to your online
services, there is a current account
verification and maintenance

You are hereby advised to follow the
reference URL below
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failure to comply
will result in temporary account suspension
and limited account activity until our
account specialist c...

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Website:

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