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Date Reported: 26th September 2010 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Urgent Notification (Protect Your online Banking) |
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Apparent Sender: |
Halifax Bank Plc |
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Return Address: |
onlinesecurity@halifax.co.uk |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.diaday.com/images/formslogins.php |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) Click here to review your account. |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
12820-175702-441226 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Halifax Bank Plc by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Halifax Bank Plc 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
As part of our commitment to the Banking Code we recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your Halifax. Bank account is being accessed from an unauthorized computer. This may be due to changes in your IP address or location. Protecting the security of your account and of the Halifax Bank network is our utmost concern.
We are asking you to immediately login and report any unnoticed changes, unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check you accou...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404 |