Halifax Alert : Secure Your Account. - Halifax Bank Scotland Plc Phishing Scams

Halifax Bank Scotland Plc


Date Reported: 31st January 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Halifax Alert : Secure Your Account.

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Bank Scotland Plc

Return Address:

OnlineServices@Halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.teimlo.com/joomla_save/templates/rt_eli
xer2.0/slimbox/halifax%20/onlineformaiindex/formsl
ogin.php

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to Log On and confirm in two
simple steps.

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

15362-219413-503551

Comments:

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

Halifax Bank Scotland Plc 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 Halifax Customer,

Due to on-going maintenance upgrade at
Halifax , all customers are required to
update their information to the new security
system to enable a faster, easier and
more secure online banking experience.
.
Click here to Log On and confirm in two
simple steps.

...

Click for full size image

Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404

See our most recent scam reports

Browse our scam report archives

Search

Please send us any scam/phishing emails you have received by reporting them here

For access to our huge blacklist of domain names and to sign up to our live feed of ALL the scams we receive please take a look at our Honeytrap service

If you have received the email below, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content, such as a different subject or return address, or with the fake webpage(s) hosted on a different webserver.

We aim to report every variant of the scams we receive, so even if it appears that a scam you receive has already been reported, please submit it to us anyway.