Important about your first direct account(s) - first Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 24th February 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Important about your first direct account(s)

Apparent Sender:

first

Return Address:

direct24hours@mail.firstdirect.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.lankanjamz.com/firstdirect.onlineservic
es/index.php

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Internet Banking plus - Log on

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

8214-106936-332464

Comments:

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

first 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.

Bank of America Alert

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION:

OUR GUARANTEE: HOW WE PROTECT YOU - When you
bank online, you trust that your funds and
personal information are
secure. That's why we work very hard to make
FIRST DIRECT and all of our online services,
sites you can visit and use
with confidence. In Online Banking, our
system encrypts all of your information. The
good news is that there are some
easy ways to protect yourself online. In the
next few sections, we'll t...

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