Update Your Account Information - National Credit Union Associat Phishing Scams

National Credit Union Associat


Date Reported: 20th January 2006	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Update Your Account Information

Apparent Sender:

National Credit Union Associat

Return Address:

Federal Credit Union < anti-spam@cuna.org >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://202.120.113.146/ganglia/addons/. CREDIT-UNION/update.php

Location:

China

Scam number:

aa-1983

Comments:

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

National Credit Union Association never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual National Credit Union Association URL.

"In the past months several credit card skimming devices have been captured in gas stations and atm locations. "

Dear valued Credit Union member,

In the past months several credit card skimming devices have been captured in gas stations and atm locations.
Fraud cost the National Credit Union Association $6B in 2005. Issuers face mounting losses due to skimming and card cloning.
Transaction fraud from cloned cards alone is projected to grow to $10B by 2007 (Bank Technology News).
Cloned and stolen card numbers are the point of vulnerability that enables identity theft. The security of the ATM PIN is very important. Therefore, the National Credit Union Association is performing a security check in order to avoid future data leak. In order to update your account details please access the link below and complete the required steps:

National Credit Union Association Security Update

Once all the requirements are met, your account will be secured and safe from any possible future illegal use.

Thank you for your cooperation regarding this important matter.

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