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Validate Your Account Details

Western


 

 
Scam Report
Date Reported: 23rd December 2011 Whats this? Risk Level: MEDIUM Whats this?
 
Details
 
Email Subject:
 Validate Your Account Details
Apparent Sender:
 Western  Whats this?
Return Address:
 Unionstaff@westernunion.com Whats this?
Email Format:  HTML Whats this?
 
URL of Web Content:
 http://server1.exact-hosting.com.au/~melissa/weste
 rn/?_action=profile-update
  Whats this?
Anchor text of URLs:
 1)
http://server1.exact-hosting.com.au/~melissa/
western/?_action=profile-update Whats this?
Location:
 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES Whats this?
 
Scam number:
 19472-312935-685789
 
Comments:
  • Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Western by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.


  • Western never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.


  • The anchor text appears as a legitimate URL, but don't be fooled - clicking on it will take you to a phishing site!


  • 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.


     
Content
 
 
Content-Length: 1056

html
body
div align="left"
table width="500" cellpadding="5"
trtd
font face="verdana" size="2"
Dear bWestern Union/b valued customer,brbr
You received this email as a notice for the
database update for this month.
This update is designed by our IT engineers
to provide higher security to
our customers online accounts, prevent
unauthorized account access and other
types of online fraud.brbr
You are required to update your online
profile ...



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