You have a secure message from Egg - Egg Phishing Scams

Egg


Date Reported: 25th January 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

You have a secure message from Egg

Apparent Sender:

Egg

Return Address:

notifications@email.egg.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.shin-sung.or.kr/cgi/zero/skin/login.asp
x.htm

Anchor text of URLs:

1) http://new.egg.com/customer/inbox

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

7385-97714-317962

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 anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!

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.

You have a new message waiting for you in the
secure area of the Egg website.

Being able to send secure messages allows us
to contact each other securely with
information specific to you and your
accounts.

If you haven't used this service before,
you'll find it's really easy.

Here you'll find any new messages you have
waiting for you and if you want to get in
touch with us or reply to any new
messages from us, you can do so from here
too.

You'll find th...

Click for full size image

Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404

See our most recent scam reports

Browse our scam report archives

Search

Please send us any scam/phishing emails you have received by reporting them here

For access to our huge blacklist of domain names and to sign up to our live feed of ALL the scams we receive please take a look at our Honeytrap service

If you have received the email below, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content, such as a different subject or return address, or with the fake webpage(s) hosted on a different webserver.

We aim to report every variant of the scams we receive, so even if it appears that a scam you receive has already been reported, please submit it to us anyway.