" Details Confirmation, SECURITY ALERT: PIease read this important message ... "
Yet another instance of forged web content being delivered in
a pop up style window, in front of the genuine site's homepage, making it appear
to be a pop up generated byt he genuine page. There is also the use of a like
sounding domain name for the forged content (see images below) ...
http://www.personal.barclays.co.uk.userset.net:4903/b/
resolves to an anonymous DNS service and has also been used in today's Halifax
Phishing Scam.
Submitted data is captured by a local (located on the same server
as the forged content) PHP script.
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. The Spoof Email ...
The
bogus web page ...
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