Date Reported 4th February 2005
Apparent Sender WAMU
Return Address UrgentReply_8mx@wamu.com
Subject wamu.com Information request
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://82.209.15.99/mekut/l
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. Email claims to be from WAMU 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. WAMU never send users emails requesting details in this way.
3. URL of spoof website disguised as https://login.personal.wamu.com/verification.asp?d=1 . This looks secure but is NOT.
4. Spoof website traced to Czech Republic.
5. Real URL obviously NOT WAMU.
6. Spoof website asks for a huge ammount of unrelated personal and financial data. There is also a lot of bad grammar, very obviously a spoof.
7. Very similar to another WAMU scam reported today.
" We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking wamu account"
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.
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