Your Online Banking Has Been suspended - NatWest OnLine Banking Phishing Scams

NatWest OnLine Banking


Date Reported: 18th January 2011	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Your Online Banking Has Been suspended

Apparent Sender:

NatWest OnLine Banking

Return Address:

services@natwestembarq.co.uk

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://rosarm.org/doc/millhouse/security/online-up
date/natwestbank/Customer%20number.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Dear NatWest Bank Customer: To protect
your accounts, we automatically suspendyour
online access when errors are being
detectedTo get back into the service, you can
reset or resolveyour details quickly and
easily using our online verification
process. To Confirm Your Identity remove the
errors in your account please follow the link
below.

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

15181-216345-498784

Comments:

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

NatWest OnLine Banking 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.

Dear NatWest Bank Customer:

To protect your accounts, we automatically
suspend
your online access when errors are being
detected
To get back into the service, you can reset
or resolve
your details quickly and easily using our
online verification process.

To Confirm Your Identity remove the errors
in your account please follow the link below.

Sincerely,
Customer Service
NatWest OnLine Banking

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