ONLINE ACCOUNT VERIFICATION - Barclays Bank PLC. Phishing Scams

Barclays Bank PLC.


Date Reported: 29th September 2015	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

ONLINE ACCOUNT VERIFICATION

Apparent Sender:

Barclays Bank PLC.

Return Address:

onlinesecurity@barclays.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://onlineaccountupdate.info/Account.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to activate the security
software

Location:

EINDHOVEN, NOORD-BRABANT, NETHERLANDS

Scam number:

24140-92593-310365

Comments:

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

Barclays Bank PLC. 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.

REPLY-TO: onlinesecurity@barclays.co.uk

Dear Barclays customer,

You may have read in our previous
correspondences in the last few months that
there have been several false e-mails sent
out to our customers with our address being
used. Due to the unforeseen circumstances we
have put precautions in place
whereby the safety of our customers are
priority. We have now improved our security
software, this software is designed
to protect our customers valuable data and
minimi...

Website:

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