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Date Reported: 7th December 2006  |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
Your account is subject for approval |
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Apparent Sender: |
e-gold |
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Return Address: |
e-gold Account Access < manage-pin@e-gold.com > |
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| Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://verifycheck.byethost31.com/acct/login.htm |
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Location: |
OH, US |
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Scam number: |
aa-3916 |
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Comments: |
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Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at e-gold by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- e-gold never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.
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The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html".
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The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual e-gold URL.
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"The security settings on your e-gold account require PIN entry
when a change in computer and/or location is detected."
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Valued member,
The security settings on your e-gold account require PIN entry
when a change in computer and/or location is detected.
If you did not attempt to login to your e-gold account today, this suggests that somebody besides you knows
the passphrase to your e-gold account due to poor security practices on your part!
In that case you should immediately take the following steps in the following order:
1. Login to your e-gold account using https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html
If the one-time PIN is still active (see above), your successful
login will deactivate it.
2. Successful login will automaticly update your account and one-time PIN
Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keypad (SRK) in case your computer is
infected with a keystroke logger or virus.
3. Read and modify if case for further assistance
e-gold website.
Don't put this step off, or you risk compromising your new passphrase
as well!
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For your security, never access the e-gold website
via hypertext links in e-mail!
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