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Another Spoof Email and Phishing Scam report by MillerSmiles.co.uk - click this image to go to our home page.

Natwest Bank strongly recommends! OR
Natwest Bank's Official Notice
23rd April 2004

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

 

Report Summary
Date Reported
23rd April 2004
Apparent Sender
Nat West Bank Online
Return Address
National Westminster Bank <users-support13@natwest.com>
Subject
Natwest Bank strongly recommends! OR
Natwest Bank's Official Notice
Format
HTML - image only
Method
clicking any where on the image will open forged web content
Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content
http://205.179.195.139:4903/n/confirm.htm (opens in pop up style window)
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

1. Employs script to open the genuine natwest.com home page as a backdrop to the bogus page which is opened in a pop up style window, giving the false impression that it was generated by the genuine page.

 

" Dear client of the National Westminster Bank, As the Technical service of the bank have been currently updating the software, "...

 

The terrible grammar should give this phishing scam away, but the forged web content is much more convincing...

A forged Nat West form is presented in one browser window while the genuine natwest.com page is presented in another. The forged page has been further scripted to open with the file, tool and address bars removed, thereby giving it an appearance of a pop up window, and with the genuine page served as a back drop, it could be incorrectly perceived to have been generated by the genuine page.

This, of-course, is not the case, and the URL of the bogus content - http://205.179.195.139:4903/n/confirm.htm - resolves to web space operated by DSL.Net in the USA. Any data submitted into this forged Nat West form is captured by a script located in the same web space.

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 ...

Natwest Bank strongly recommends! - forged email.

 

The bogus web page (which is presented in a pop up style window in front of the genuine natwest.com page) ...

Natwest Bank strongly recommends! forged web page.

 

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