Halifax Secure Reset Password Confirmation - Halifax Bank Phishing Scams

Halifax Bank


Date Reported: 1st May 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Halifax Secure Reset Password Confirmation

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Bank

Return Address:

help.desk@halifaxsecure.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://geoffgreenwood.com/documentation/Login.php

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Halifax Security Center, 2) My Account
Activity, 3) Privacy Policy, 4) click
here, 5) click here

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

9778-128545-365625

Comments:

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

Halifax Bank 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.

HALIFAX SECURITY CENTER

ACCOUNT STATUS NOTIFICATION

We are contacting you to Inform you that our
Account Review Team identified some unusual
Information in your account.
In accordance with Halifax plc User Agreement
and to ensure that your account has not been
accessed from fraudulent
locations, access to your account has been
limited. Your account access will remain
limited until this issue has been
resolved please Click My Account Activity to
continue:
...

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Website:

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