Unusual activity On Your Halifax Account! - Halifax Bank Phishing Scams

Halifax Bank


Date Reported: 19th September 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Unusual activity On Your Halifax Account!

Apparent Sender:

Halifax Bank

Return Address:

no-reply@halifax.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://rossini-spa.it/img/contatti/halifax.co.uk.h
tm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Proceed to verification

Location:

(UNKNOWN CITY), UNITED STATES

Scam number:

18490-288449-637275

Comments:

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

Halifax 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.

DEAR CUSTOMER,

Please note that starting from September 19,
2011 we will be introducing new online
banking
authentication procedures in order to
protect Your private information's.

You are required to verify your online
banking Profile on file with us as you will
not be able to
have access to your accounts until this has
been done.

As you're already registered for online
banking all you need to do is to use the
reference below to proceed.

Proceed t...

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