Important Account Verification - Bank of Phishing Scams

Bank of


Date Reported: 3rd December 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Important Account Verification

Apparent Sender:

Bank of

Return Address:

Americaservice@eonline.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.helpingtohouse.org/documents/secureacce
ss/

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to go to the online form

Location:

Scam number:

19335-308206-676282

Comments:

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

Bank of 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 BANK OF AMERICA customer,

A new security method was developed by our
IT engineers, which purpose is to protect
online accounts from unauthorized
usage and third party access. For this new
feature to be added to our online banking
system our members are required to
update their profile information by clicking
on the following link:

Click here to go to the online form

You are required to update your account
one-time only and will take 3-5 minutes of
y...

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Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 401

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