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Citibank Fraud Verification Process
6th May 2004

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk

 

Report Summary
Date Reported
first reported 28th March 2004
Apparent Sender
Citibank
Return Address
various spoofed ebay.com addresses used
Subject
Citibank Fraud Verification Process
Format
HTML
Method
disguised link leads to bogus web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
http://65.254.231.208/citibank-verify-account................
OR
http://esolweb.net/citibank-verify-account-................
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. Note the URLs of the bogus content, this is in no way related to citibank.com

 

" Dear Citibank user, As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period review of our member accounts. "... yeah right!...

 

A spoofed Citibank Bank email which urges recipients to complete a form using a link provided but the link will lead to forged Citibank web content.

The forged web form was located at http://65.254.231.208/..... which resolves to networkshosting.com in the USA and clearly has nothing to do with Citibank.com at all.

The bogus page had been removed by the time we had received this report, but we would expect the forgery to have represented something very similar, if not the same, to recent Citibank email scams where pages have been scripted to open a 'pop-up window' (with forged content) in front of the genuine citibank.com page.

If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

 

The Spoof Email ...

Citibank Fraud Verification Process

 

The forged web page...

Citibank Fraud Verification Process forged web page.

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