Online Banking Security Alerts - Bank Of America® Phishing Scams

Bank Of America®


Date Reported: 31st December 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Online Banking Security Alerts

Apparent Sender:

Bank Of America®

Return Address:

onlinealerts@ealerts.bankofamerica.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://boaffaone.t35.com/home.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to continue, 2) sign in
to Online Banking

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

6804-90880-307405

Comments:

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

Bank Of America® 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 CUSTOMER

YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LOCKED TEMPORARILY.
THIS IS BECAUSE WE SUSPECT SOME ONE ELSE HAS
BEEN ATTEMPTING TO GAIN ACCESS
TO YOUR ACCOUNT, FOR THIS REASON WE IMPLORE
YOU TO CONFIRM YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS TO
ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US.CLICK
HERE TO CONTINUE
-------------------------

Note: Failure to do this will lead to your
account been permanently locked The e-mail
address that generated this alert
will not accept replies. If you would like to
con...

Click for full size image

Website:

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

See our most recent scam reports

Browse our scam report archives

Search

Please send us any scam/phishing emails you have received by reporting them here

For access to our huge blacklist of domain names and to sign up to our live feed of ALL the scams we receive please take a look at our Honeytrap service

If you have received the email below, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content, such as a different subject or return address, or with the fake webpage(s) hosted on a different webserver.

We aim to report every variant of the scams we receive, so even if it appears that a scam you receive has already been reported, please submit it to us anyway.