Confirm your Online Banking records - Alaska USA Federal Credit Unio Phishing Scams

Alaska USA Federal Credit Unio


Date Reported: 20th April 2006	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Confirm your Online Banking records

Apparent Sender:

Alaska USA Federal Credit Unio

Return Address:

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union < service@alaskausa.org >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://210.254.40.202/~info/.ultrabranch.alaskafcu. org/efs/servlet/efs/login.htm

Location:

Japan

Scam number:

aa-2538

Comments:

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

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "https://ultrabranch.alaskausa.org/efs/servlet/ efs/login.jsp".

The REAL URL of the spoof website is hidden by a hyperlinked image in the body of the email. This is a technique used to get past spam filters that can only read normal text.

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.

The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual Alaska USA Federal Credit Union URL.

"We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in your Alaska USA Federal Credit Union account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account was hacked by a third party without your authorization. "

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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