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Date Reported: 13th January 2010 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Dear Bank of America Member. |
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Apparent Sender: |
Bank of America |
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Return Address: |
Not found |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.brandhaus.com.au/administrator/componen ts/com_virtuemart/classes/virus/signin.bankofameri ca.com/e-online-banking/ |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) Re-Verify Your Account Details |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
7074-94033-312478 |
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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 Member,
Due to the high number of fraud attempts and phishing scams, it has been decided to implement EV SSL Certification on this Internet Banking website.
The use of EV SSL certification works with high security Web browsers to clearly identify whether the site belongs to the company or is another site imitating that company's site.
It has been introduced to protect our clients against phishing and other online fraudulent activities. S...
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