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Date Reported: 8th June 2010 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Halifax Online Banking Safety |
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Apparent Sender: |
Halifax Online Banking |
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Return Address: |
online_helpdesk@halifax.co.uk |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://td-uralsnab.ru/simigvis.php |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
No anchor text attached to link |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
10631-141050-384881 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Halifax Online Banking by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Halifax Online Banking 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 CUSTOMER, -------------------------
HALIFAX ONLINE BANKING SECURITY DEPARTMENT has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised uses of the Halifax Online Banking accounts. As a result we have temporarily shutting down some selected Halifax Online Banking Accounts perceived vulnerable to this, pending till the time we carry out proper verification by the account owner. Halifax Online Banking is committed to ensure the safeguard of each customer per...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404 |