AOL - Ownership Contact Details Needed - Billing Center Phishing Scams

Billing Center


Date Reported: 9th September 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM-HIGH

Email Subject:

AOL - Ownership Contact Details Needed

Apparent Sender:

Billing Center

Return Address:

ALBillingCenter@message.al.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://aolcontact-update.com/my.screenname.aol.com
/_billing/update/update.psp/sitedomain/myaccount.a
ol.com

Anchor text of URLs:

1)
https://my.screenname.aol.com/_billing/update
/update.psp?sitedomain=myaccount.aol.com&
authLev=S&lang=en&locale=us&siteS
tate=OrigUrl

Location:

WOONSOCKET, RI, UNITED STATES

Scam number:

18382-285770-632293

Comments:

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

Billing Center 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!

AOL - OWNERSHIP CONTACT DETAILS NEEDED

As you may already know we regulary ask our
customers to re-confirm contact details which
associated with their AOL
Account(s).
This helps us better contact you with
alerts, news, updates and to keep your AOL
Account safe and reliable 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.

We protect the systems at our end but
security is a mutual responsibility and a
good communication between you and AOL
is always required.
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