Halifax Bank - IP Address Registration - Halifax Bank Security Alert®a Phishing Scams

Halifax Bank Security Alert®account.review@halifax.co.uk


Date Reported: 15th February 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Halifax Bank - IP Address Registration

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Bank Security Alert®account.review@halifax.co.uk

Return Address:

Alertaccount.review@halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://wipendry.com/downloads/images/halifax-onlin
e/formslogin.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Sign In

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

7984-104294-328219

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Halifax Bank Security Alert®account.review@halifax.co.uk by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.

Halifax Bank Security Alert®account.review@halifax.co.uk 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.

IP Address Registration,

We are introducing this provision for
registration on your IP address from which
you access your online banking account,
In order to prevent strange activities on our
online bank account. These IP address will be
register on our database.
All login attempts from a different location
apart from the specified will need phone
confirmation.

Click on Sign In to access your acount and
confirm your IP address now. You must repeat
this operation
...

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Website:

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