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Internet Banking Issue (US Bank)
24th May 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
first reported 19th May 2004, and again 24th May 2004
Apparent Sender
U.S. Bank
Return Address
service@usbank.com <service@usbank.com>
Subject
Internet Banking Issue
Format
HTML
Method
disguised link leads to bogus web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
19th May 04 version - http://us-check.netfirms.com/l
24th May 04 version - http://u-s-b-a-n-k.com/ - not a genuine usbank.com domain - traces back to a Yahoo (Geocities) user's web space.
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. Pay attention to the URLs used for the forged content (you wont see this until you use the link provided in the email as it is coded to be hidden when reading it in HTML format and with scripts allowed to execute) -they are certainly not a part of the genuine US Bank domain.

 

" Dear U.S. Bank valued member, Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the online banking community we have issued this warning message. "...

 

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 ...

Internet Banking Issue

 

The forged web page ...

Internet Banking Issue (US Bank)

 

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