Verify Your Account Details - Egg Phishing Scams

Egg


Date Reported: 18th February 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Verify Your Account Details

Apparent Sender:

Egg

Return Address:

Egg Banking plc < service@mail-egg.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.ordos.ru/ images/pic/eggs.php

Location:

Russia

Scam number:

aa-8746

Comments:

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

Egg 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.

The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual Egg URL.

"Due to security reasons we will want you to confirm your access details by clicking on the verfiy my account details link below"

Dear Valued Client
Due to security reasons we will want you to confirm your access details by clicking on the verfiy my account details link below

This is due to the fact that a recent review of your account by our security team shows that the use of your account might have been compromised. for security reasons we will want you to verify your account information withing 24 hours

Verify My account Details

Failure to do this will lead to restricted access to your account for security reason.

Sorry for the inconviences

Regards
Egg Security Team

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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