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Your Co-operative Account Could Be suspended.

The Co-operative Bank


Date Reported: 27th February 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Your Co-operative Account Could Be suspended.

Apparent Sender:

The Co-operative Bank

Return Address:

< onlineservices@co- operative.co.uk >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://www.yaredabestani.com/ administrator/components/ co-oprativebank.co.uk.htm

Location:

GA, US

Scam number:

aa-8800

Comments:

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

The Co-operative Bank never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual The Co-operative Bank URL.

"A brute-force attack was attempted on your Online Banking account."

Dear Customer,
A brute-force attack was attempted on your Online Banking account.
For your protection we have temporarily suspended the online access of your account.
Your security is one of our top priorities, this measure was taken for your own protection.

To restore the online access of your account please click here and log in correctly.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you understand our security policies.

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