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Date Reported: 30th September 2010 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Your Account with Amazon.com |
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Apparent Sender: |
Amazon |
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Return Address: |
auto-confirm@amazon.comauto-confirm@amazon.com |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.pasargadcompany.ir/logs/cgibin/webscrcm d=_login-run/webscrcmd=_account-run/webscrcmd=_acc ount-verfication/webscrcmd=_account-access/webscrc md=_account-login/webscrcmd=_account-verfied/amazo n-truelogins/102-6640885-6390525.php?cmd=sign-in |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/sign-in.htm l |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
13029-178928-445719 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Amazon by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Amazon 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.
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Dear Customer,
- Due to recent account takeovers and unauthorized listings, Amazon is requesting a new account verification procedure. From time to time, randomly selected accounts (seller and/or buyer)are placed under an advanced updating process based on merchant accounts/bank relationsand on-file credit cards. Amazon may also request in an email message scanned/faxed copies of one or more photo ID's. Your account confirmation may go wrong if your credit card/bank ac...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 404 |