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Confirm Your Online Banking Account
Information
FirstMerit Bank
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Date Reported: 31st July 2005  |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Confirm Your Online Banking Account Information |
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Apparent Sender: |
FirstMerit Bank |
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Return Address: |
< Service@FirstMerit.com > |
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HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://64.202.115.191/~dexter/firstmerit/ |
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Location: |
US |
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Scam number: |
aa-960 |
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Comments: |
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Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at FirstMerit Bank by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- FirstMerit Bank never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.
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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.
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The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual FirstMerit Bank URL.
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"FirstMerit is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its
community of clients."
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Feedback Assistance
FirstMerit is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its
community of clients. To protect the security of your account,
FirstMerit employs some of the most advanced security systems in the
world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the FirstMerit system
for unusual activity.
*We are contacting you to inform you that on June. 12, 2005 our Online
Banking Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your
account. In accordance with FirstMerit's User Agreement and to ensure
that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was
limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has
been resolved.*
Our system requires further account verification.
Case ID Number: FM-563-002-410
We encourage you to perform the steps necessary to restore your account
access* as soon as possible*. Allowing your account access to remain
limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations
on the use of your account and possible account closure.
Click here to restore your account
Thank you for using FirstMerit Bank!
The First Merit Security Team
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Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your FirstMerit account
and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update
your preferences here
FirstMerit Email ID FM4681
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