Important - Secure Your HSBC Account(s) - HSBC Bank Phishing Scams

HSBC Bank


Date Reported: 20th February 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Important - Secure Your HSBC Account(s)

Apparent Sender:

HSBC Bank

Return Address:

Plchsbc@email.hsbc.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://pyrobid.de//includes/indexx/hsbc/1.php?jses
sionidÊM10:jsessionid00RcSVT4vYF7HNB8AsppR8HRo:11
j71fovq?IDV_URL=hsbc.MyHSBC_pib

Anchor text of URLs:

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

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

8094-105679-330256

Comments:

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

HSBC 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.

HSBC BANK PLC has been receiving complaints
from our customers for unauthorized use of
the HSBC Online accounts. As a
result we periodically review HSBC Online
Accounts and temporarily restrict access of
those accounts which we think are
vunerable to the unauthorized use.

This message has been sent to you from HSBC
Online Banking because we have noticed
invalid login attempts into your
account, due to this we are temporarily
limiting and restricting your account access
un...

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Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 403

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