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Date Reported: 27th October 2010 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
BANK OF AMERICA: UPDATE YOUR ONLINE BANKING INFORMATION. |
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Apparent Sender: |
Bank of America |
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Return Address: |
Alertonline@security.com |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://elnomrosy.com/images/randV6son2nunc51-sucer ty00000oone%20line%20no%20replay%20ascf45653210/up date.html |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) URL link is in form of image |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
13613-188665-459549 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Bank of America by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Bank of America 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.
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Dear Bank of America customer,
During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your account information.
This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information ( i.e.change of address). 2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process. 3. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal err...
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Website: |
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404 |