The Royal Bank of Scotland - Limited Access. - The Royal Bank of Scotland Phishing Scams

The Royal Bank of Scotland


Date Reported: 18th August 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

The Royal Bank of Scotland - Limited Access.

Apparent Sender:

The Royal Bank of Scotland

Return Address:

online-service-update@rbs.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.dpctech.net/infoathand/custom/working/L
ogin.php

Anchor text of URLs:

1) URL link is in form of image

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

3372-48009-226663

Comments:

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

The Royal Bank of Scotland 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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The Royal Bank of Scotland

RBS ONLINE BANKING SECURITY MEASURE.

We are currently performing regular
maintenance of our security measures. Your
account has been randomly selected for
this maintenance, and you will now be taken
through a series of Identity Verification
Steps.

In order for you to continue with our Online
Banking Services,Use the link below to
cotinue with the processes.

Thanks For Your Co-operation.
2009 |...

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