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Date Reported: 5th November 2009 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Security Update Notice |
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Apparent Sender: |
Alliance & leicester Bank |
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Return Address: |
security-update@alert.com |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://joanneteo.com/ddddrrr/alliance&leiceste r/e-banking/online-updates/banking/login.do/secure .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: |
5476-74614-278927 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Alliance & leicester Bank by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Alliance & leicester Bank 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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DEAR CUSTOMER
Alliance & leicester have been receiving complaints from our Customers about unauthorised use of their Online Bank Accounts. As a result we periodically review certain Customers' Accounts and temporarily restrict access to those which we think are vulnerable to unauthorised use.
This message has been sent to you from Alliance & leicester because we have noticed some invalid login attempts into your account. Due to this we are temporarily limiting an...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 500 |