AOL Administration Center Notification #63823 - AOL Administration Center (R) Phishing Scams

AOL Administration Center (R)


Date Reported: 8th November 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

AOL Administration Center Notification #63823

Apparent Sender:

AOL Administration Center (R)

Return Address:

AOLCenter@message.aol.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://optimalbors.com/joyously.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) instructions

Location:

Scam number:

19067-301882-663688

Comments:

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

AOL Administration Center (R) 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.

Hi,

You have 1 NOTIFICATION (#63823) from AOL
ADMINISTRATION CENTER (R)
Please follow the instructions to continue.

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The AOL Mail Team

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