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Date Reported: 21st November 2010 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
NatWest Bank Alert: Unauthorized Access On Your Account |
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Apparent Sender: |
Natwest |
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Return Address: |
onLineservice@natwest.co.uk |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.mcscpa.net/includes/PEAR/NATWEST/index. html |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) URL link is in form of image |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
14146-199005-472077 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Natwest by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Natwest 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.
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SECURITY ALERT?
National Westminster Bank has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the Natwest Online accounts. As a result we periodically review Natwest Online Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are vunerable to the unauthorised use.
This message has been sent to you from National Westminster Bank because we have noticed invalid login attempts into your account, due to this we are temporarily lim...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 403 |