Bank Of The West Checking Card - Bank Of The West Phishing Scams

Bank Of The West


Date Reported: 12th May 2005	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Bank Of The West Checking Card

Apparent Sender:

Bank Of The West

Return Address:

< win@bankofthewest.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://member.bankofthewest-secure.com/index.php ?Cvjgz=1836368446481624551487262412198272 908752401664010258085336545463664549890956368 3942927254&ssl=890263827367157014482777979705 185101594331157968307&eml=xxx&TFd=675372343 96248364207529098672758402236776390227&RqI t=6484003192874522035262938329556

Location:

Unknown

Scam number:

aa-477

Comments:

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

Bank Of The West 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.

The REAL URL of the spoof website has been chosen to look very similar to the actual Bank Of The West URL. Do not be fooled!

"We ask you to confirm immediately of your parity the account to given e-mail. "

Dear Bank Of The West user.
We ask you to confirm immediately of your parity the account to given e-mail.

Go to:
http://control.bankofthewest-secure.com /index.php?UNt=205605025202655958585879 60266739786836099026676262020717843516 494088787699367984187268953&ssl=MuILmt EbPpbjTjteLEnRdhyhaOPtIELxZwilFNnve&e ml=xxx&oFMz=205844253121891827615&NQk= 03475064597655098639848767933194
Otherwise your account will be frozen in 48 hours.
Thank you for using Bank of the West online site.

Because this is an automated acknowledgement, we ask that you do not reply to this message.
Thank you for choosing Bank Of The West!

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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