Western Union Department Head office - Western Union Phishing Scams

Western Union


Date Reported: 5th December 2010	Risk Level: MEDIUM

Email Subject:

Western Union Department Head office

Apparent Sender:

Western Union

Return Address:

kimberly_h_45130@yahoo.com

Email Format:

HTML

URL of Web Content:

http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=iiEk8
o3O1OE&offerid)362.10000180&type=4&sub
id=0

Anchor text of URLs:

1) URL link is in form of image, 2) URL link
is in form of image

Location:

Location not available

Scam number:

14429-204264-479382

Comments:

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.

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.

AND RECEIVE MONEY VIA ANY WESTERN UNION STORE
NEAR YOU!

There are payment abandoned in our custody.
Besides, my dear, this is the only
opportunity for you and has to comply and
your funds shall be transfer to your
designated address. But remember that after
(3DAYS) you did not make the payment
then we will divert your funds to Government
Fund, to avoid problem or we will cancel the
payment for this year until
next year because this year is not like last
year. Again after (THR...

Click for full size image

Website:

Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 400

See our most recent scam reports

Browse our scam report archives

Search

Please send us any scam/phishing emails you have received by reporting them here

For access to our huge blacklist of domain names and to sign up to our live feed of ALL the scams we receive please take a look at our Honeytrap service

If you have received the email below, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content, such as a different subject or return address, or with the fake webpage(s) hosted on a different webserver.

We aim to report every variant of the scams we receive, so even if it appears that a scam you receive has already been reported, please submit it to us anyway.