Date Reported 21st February 2005
Apparent Sender Regions
Return Address Customer Support < customers@regions.com >
Subject Online Account Support Information
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://211.218.34.67/EBanking/logon/
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. Email claims to be from Regions 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. Regions never send users emails requesting details in this way.
3. URL of spoof website disguised as " Sign on to Online Account "
4. Real URL looks nothing like Regions .
5. Website traced to SEOUL, Korea.
6. Spoof website apparently not online time of report - may have been disabled, but may be reactivated, so be wary!
" In accordance with Regions Bank, NA's Consumer Agreement and to guarantee that your online account hasn't been compromised, internet access to checking your account was blocked. "
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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