Upgrade Your Account Security - Natwest Bank Alert Phishing Scams

Natwest Bank Alert


Date Reported: 16th July 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Upgrade Your Account Security

Apparent Sender:

Natwest Bank Alert

Return Address:

onlineservice@natwest.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://canihasafile.com/albums/blog/nba/1/natty/Lo
gin.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Click here to verify your account

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

2667-37532-206489

Comments:

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

Natwest Bank Alert 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.

NatWest Security Center Advisory!

Dear Valued Member,

During our regularly scheduled account
maintenance and verification procedures, we
have detected a slight error in your
account information.
In order to confirm your NatWest account
records, we may require some specific
information from you.

Click here to verify your account

We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you choose to ignore our request, you
leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend
your acc...

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