Important Message Regarding Your Account - Halifax Phishing Scams

Halifax


Date Reported: 2nd March 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Important Message Regarding Your Account

Apparent Sender:

Halifax

Return Address:

halifaxsecure@customer.halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://forum.whmcs.com/customavatars/thumbs/enter.
html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Sign In to Online Service

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

16051-231558-527147

Comments:

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

Halifax 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 Customer,

Security machinery at Halifax has been
upgraded to provide customers
with a faster, easier and more efficient
online banking experience.
All customers are required to update their
account information.

Sign In to Online Service and complete the
update process.

NOTE: Failure to update your information will
lead to online service suspension.

Thank you

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