Notification from Visa Credit Cards - Secure Notification Phishing Scams

Secure Notification


Date Reported: 23rd November 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Notification from Visa Credit Cards

Apparent Sender:

Secure Notification

Return Address:

Not found

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.duethorn.de/100cms/visa/visa/www.visa.c
om/redirect.to/www.visa.com/personal/visa/security
/index.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Please click here to verify your identity

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

5959-79779-287835

Comments:

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

Secure Notification 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 VALUED VISA CARD CUSTOMER,

It has come to our attention that your Visa
Card information needs to be
reactivated as part of our continuing
commitment to protect your card and to
reduce the instance of fraud.
Once you have reactivated your Visa Card
records, your card
service will not be interrupted and will
continue as normal.

Your Case ID Number is: RT87R700FD

To reactivate your Visa Card click on the
following link:

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VE...

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Website:

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