Natwest Bank Plc - Important Banking Mail.... - Natwest Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 5th June 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Natwest Bank Plc - Important Banking Mail....

Apparent Sender:

Natwest

Return Address:

natwest-internet-banking@natwest.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.mamamia.com.mx/help/www.update.natwest.
co.uk/http.www.update.natwest.co.uk12personalcredi
t-cards%253bjsessionid00pDFvvK08lyoIpQOFOAhC_Ct11
j74l29q/http.www.update.natwest.co.uk1themeshtmlhs
bc_ukpersonalimagesna/

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Restore Your natwest Account
Access.

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

10577-140174-383641

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.

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
limiting and restricting yo...

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