HALIFAX ONLINE BANKING - URGENT ACTION NEEDED - Halifax Bank plc Phishing Scams

Halifax Bank plc


Date Reported: 20th January 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

HALIFAX ONLINE BANKING - URGENT ACTION NEEDED

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Bank plc

Return Address:

onlineservice@email.halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://webworld.ro/images/css/1/index/halifaxonlin
e2nd/online/_mem_bin/formslogin.asp.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) URL link is in form of image, 2) URL link
is in form of image

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

15214-217197-500011

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Halifax Bank 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 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 Account Holder,

For the safety and integrity of the Halifax
Bank costumers we have issued this warning
message.

We are unable to activate your account
because we have just upgraded our online
security parameters to make your Bank
account and your details more secured from
online theft, so we request that you
reconfirm your online Banking details
with the one we have on file before you will
be able to send and receive money online.

However, failure to ...

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Website:

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

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