Account Locked! - Bank of America Alert Phishing Scams

Bank of America Alert


Date Reported: 6th July 2009	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Account Locked!

Apparent Sender:

Bank of America Alert

Return Address:

onlinebanking@ealerts.bankofamerica.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://lordsofwarforum.altervista.org//sas/cgi-bin
/ias/A/1/bofa/ibd/IAS/presentation/pm_tokenÂ886KJE
HD89483JSO3829ENDHU8392OJD/safe.ssl.confirm.online
bankingofamerica.com/index.html

Anchor text of URLs:

1) Sign In », 2) click here

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

2386-32921-198369

Comments:

Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Bank of America Alert by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.

Bank of America Alert never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.

Bank of America Alert

Remember:
Always look for
your SiteKey before
you enter your
passcode during
Sign In »

UNLOCK YOUR ONLINE BANKING

-------------------------

Dear Bank of America Customer,

There are a number of invalid login attempts
on your account. We had to believe that,
there might be some security
problems on your account. So we have decided
to put an extra verification process to
ensure your identity and your
accou...

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Website:

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