Co-operative Bank Security Alert! - Co-operative Bank Phishing Scams

Co-operative Bank


Date Reported: 20th November 2012	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Co-operative Bank Security Alert!

Apparent Sender:

Co-operative Bank

Return Address:

banking@coperativebank.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://armoiresdecuisinedc.com/wp-includes/images/
co-operativeinvestments.co.uk.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) CLICK HERE TO VERIFY YOUR
ACCOUNT

Location:

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

Scam number:

21199-375014-884058

Comments:

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

Co-operative Bank 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.

Dear Co-operative Bank Customer,

We have encountered difficulty verifying
your
account information. Error
code:(err03i07521)

Please Follow the link below and fix this
problem,
this will only take a minute.

CLICK HERE TO VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT

We implore you to match your information's
correctly during this process.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a compulsory measure.
Failure to update your information will lead
to service suspension.

Online Serv...

Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 403

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