Halifax Bank - Your Account Summary - Halifax Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 26th December 2012	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Halifax Bank - Your Account Summary

Apparent Sender:

Halifax

Return Address:

onlineservices@halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://bellavistasivota.gr/site/wp-content/languag
es/login.jsp.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) CLICK HERE

Location:

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

Scam number:

21305-379684-900926

Comments:

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

Halifax 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.

This is a summary of a transaction that has
occurred on your account.also you would be
able

to view the current balance of your account
after this transaction. To view all the
transaction that

occur and to view your current balance after
this transactiom which represent your current
bank .

CLICK HERE

Thank you for choosing HALIFAX

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