Billing update must be performed - AOL Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 13th May 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Billing update must be performed

Apparent Sender:

AOL

Return Address:

AOLSupport@mail.aol.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://uswest7.myserverhosts.com/~chinetog/kcaptch
a/util/my.screenname.aol/_cqr/login/login.psp/mcSt
ate=initialized&sitedomain=startpage.aol.com/

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to update your account

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

10107-133116-372040

Comments:

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

AOL 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.

It has come to our attention that your AOL
Billing Information records are out of date.
That requires you to update the
Billing Information. Failure to update your
records will result in account termination.
Please update your records
within 24 hours. Once you have updated your
account records, your AOL session will not be
interrupted and will continue
as normal. Failure to update will result in
cancellation of service, Terms of Service
(TOS) violations or future billing
problem...

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