Report Summary Date Reported 7th January 2005
Apparent Sender Halifax
Return Address Halifax <anti-fraud.ref.num4975804990@halifax.co.uk>
Subject Customer service: your account in Halifax Internet banking
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://207.202.89.91:87/f/
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. Email claims to be from Halifax 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. Halifax never send users emails requesting details in this way.
3. URL and email text disguised by embedding in an image - a technique used to get past spam filters.
"Dear client of the Halifax Internet Banking,... "
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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