Bank Of America Fraud Verification

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Bank Of America Fraud Verification
21st December 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported	21st December 2004
Apparent Sender	Bank Of America
Return Address	<service@bankofamerica.com>
Subject	Bank Of America Fraud Verification
Format	HTML
Method	Spoof email links to a spoof webpage where victim is prompted to enter their details believing the site is genuine. Details are then forwarded to a local script and captured.
Bogus Web Content?	Yes
URL of web content	http://online-ibanking.com/.bankofamerica.com/cgi-bin/
RISK LEVEL	MEDIUM
WARNINGS	1. Email claims to be from Bank Of America asking you to confirm your account data by clicking on the link. You will be taken to a spoof login page where your details will be captured by the phishers. 2. Bank Of America never send users emails requesting details in this way. 3. URL disguised as https://onlineid.bankofamerica.com/cgi-bin/sso.login.controller 4. Spoof URL looks secure (https:), but is not.

"As part of our continuing commitment to protect your Bank Of America account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period review of our members accounts. "

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 ...

Dear Bank Of America Customer.

As part of our continuing commitment to protect your Bank Of America account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period review of our members accounts.

You are requested to visit our website, login to your account and fill in the required information.

Please click on the link below to login to your account:

https://onlineid.bankofamerica.com/cgi-bin/sso.login.controller

This is required for us to continue to offer you a safe and risk free environment to send and recive money online and maintain the Bank Of America experience.

We will ask you to pass over this warning, the recent cases of fraudulent use of clients accounts forced the Technical services of the bank to update the software.

The Spoof Website ...

Spoof website not online at time of report. Likely to closely resemble the real Bank of America website.


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Bank Of America Fraud Verification 21st December 2004

Dear Bank Of America Customer.

Bank Of America Fraud Verification
21st December 2004