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                        | Date Reported: 20th October 2010  | Risk Level: MEDIUM  |  | 
              
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                | Email Subject:  | Your Account Security Notice - 18 October 2010. | 
              
              
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                | Apparent Sender:  | HSBC Personal Banking  | 
              
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                | Return Address:  | internet-banking@mail.com  | 
              
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                | Email Format: | HTML  | 
              
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                | URL of Web Content:  | http://www.picchioniturismo.com.br/images/Informat ivos/2sem2010/HSBC/online.html
 
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                | Anchor text of URLs:  | 1) https://verify.accountstatus.hsbc/security?
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                | Location:  | Location not available  | 
			  
		
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                | Scam number: | 13503-186339-456967 | 
         
              
              
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                | Comments: | Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at HSBC Personal Banking  by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
 
 HSBC Personal Banking  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.
 
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                | Valued HSBC Customer,
 
 This Message was sent by HSBC Internet
 Banking Team.
 
 we observed activity that we would like to
 further verify.
 This could be due to the following reasons:
 
 You may have recently changed your computer
 settings
 You may be logging in from a different
 computer
 Due to multiple log-in attempt error on your
 account
 
 Click on the link below to log-in and begin
 using your updated
 HSBC Online Account to avoid service
 interruption.
 
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