An urgent message from Wellsfargo - Wells Fargo Phishing Scams

Wells Fargo


Date Reported: 19th August 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

An urgent message from Wellsfargo

Apparent Sender:

Wells Fargo

Return Address:

Bankservice@wellsfargo.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://gtadreamhouse.com/client/WellsFargo.CoM/Wel
lsFargo.CoM/wel%20lsfargo.com/wellsfargo.com/index
.html

Anchor text of URLs:

No anchor text attached to link

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

3383-48193-227002

Comments:

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

Wells Fargo 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,
we sound this as an urgent notice to you that
your online banking account
will soon be closed due to the reasons
outlined below 1. You don't seem to be using
your online account often.
2. You don't seem to use your credit card
often.
NOTE: It's the time of the year when all
WELLSFARGO
customers update their online account for
fraudulent checks and security purpose.
You are required to click on our designated
link that leads to customer update
page and care...

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Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 403

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