Egg Online Payment Successfull - Egg Phishing Scams

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Date Reported: 9th July 2007	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Egg Online Payment Successfull

Apparent Sender:

Egg

Return Address:

Egg Banking plc < payments@egg.com >

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://0x3d0361fa/authorize/index.php?q= aHR0cDovL25ldy5lZ2cuY29tL3Zpc2l0b3IvMCws M18xMTA2MC0tVmlld184MTksMDAuaHRtbA==

Location:

Unknown

Scam number:

aa-5207

Comments:

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

Egg 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 looks nothing like the actual Egg URL.

"We've just sent an e-mail to anthony_jones6@yahoo.co.uk to let them know there's a payment waiting for them to collect."

We've just sent an e-mail to anthony_jones6@yahoo.co.uk to let them know there's a payment waiting for them to collect. As soon as they collect the money we'll let you know.

You may want to keep this e-mail for your records. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to e-mail us securely on the link below:

Login to your Egg online account

We'll be able to answer any questions more quickly if you let us know that the payment reference was 281336868 and that the payment date was 22/02/2007.

Best wishes,

Henk Van Hulle

Head of Egg InternetPay

Website:

Spoof website not online at time of report...

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