Date Reported 28th February 2005
Apparent Sender SouthTrust
Return Address Online Banking Department < notify@southtrustonlinebanking.com >
Subject Customer Alerting Service: unusual activity
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://211.184.87.189/retail/index.php
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. Email claims to be from SouthTrust 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. SouthTrust never send users emails requesting details in this way.
3. URL of spoof website disguised as "Login to Online Account ".
4. Real URL looks nothing like SouthTrust!
5. Website traced to Kyonggi, Korea.
"Online Customer, Customer Service remind you that on 21, February 2005 our Banking Review Team identified some uncommon activity in your Debit Card 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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