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Important Notification
Western Union
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Date Reported: 10th April 2007  |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Important Notification |
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Apparent Sender: |
Western Union |
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Return Address: |
Western Union Account Review Department < accountreview@westernunion.com > |
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HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://www.westernunionis.com/asp/ regMyAccount.asp |
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Location: |
CA, US |
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Scam number: |
aa-4664 |
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Comments: |
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Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Western Union by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- Western Union 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 has been chosen to look very similar to the actual Western Union URL. Do not be fooled!
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"We have strong reasons to believe that your Western Union account has been recently compromised. "
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Dear Member,
We have strong reasons to believe that your Western Union account has been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
According to User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your online banking and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.
If you choose not to verify your account information within the next 72 hours, you'll let us no choice than to suspend it for security reasons. We apologize for this inconvenience.
Please click here in order to confirm your identity and regain full privileges of your account.
Regards,
Western Union Security
© 2001-2007 Western Union Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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