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Administration Barclays
14th April 2004

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

 

Report Summary
Date Reported
14th April 2004
Apparent Sender
Barclays
Return Address
internet.security@barclays.co.uk
Subject
Administration Barclays
Format
HTML
Method
disguised link leads to a forged web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
http://elementgmbh.de/link.php
RISK LEVEL
Low
WARNINGS

1. Incredibly poor grammar

 

If you fall for this scam, you may need to reconsider using the internet at all ...

 

Judging by the exceptionally poor grammar, it appears that this email text was an invention of one of the free online translators. We were unable to capture the bogus web page that the link leads to (the link is disguised using HTML code and will not take you to http://ibank.barclays.co.uk as it appears it would) but an alternative page or more is very common.

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 ...

Hello dear client Barclays Bank. 
Today our system of safety at night has been cracked!!! 
It not a joke!!! It is the truth!!! 
We ask you, in order to prevent problems, to repeat
registration of your data. Make it very quickly! 
Administration Barclays Bank. 
 
http://ibank.barclays.co.uk

 

 

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