Please confirm your AOL account - Phishing Scam
17th February 2004

Scammers pretend to be AOL and state that " your AOL Billing information's records are out of date "...

read also our brief guide to Phishing

This AOL email (see image below) is a forgery which contains a disguised link to a forged AOL web page which aims to convince recipients to give up their financial information.

The forged web page was located at http://aol-confirm.us/ which was hosted by Canadian dotster.com

If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

Take a good look at the following images, because this email scam may be coming to an inbox near you!

The Email ...