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THE LAST NOTICE - Alert about your billing information on file
15th October 2004

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

Report Summary
Date Reported
15th October 2004
Apparent Sender
AOL
Return Address
AOL Billing <billing@aolupdate.com>
Subject
THE LAST NOTICE - Alert about your billing information on file
Format
HTML
Method

Spoof email requests you visit spoof website and enter your details for updating/validating your account. Details are captured and forwarded to scammers by a script.

Bogus Web Content?
Yes
URL of web content

http://www.error-billingaol.com/AOL_Billing.htm

RISK LEVEL
MEDIUM
WARNINGS

1. A crudely designed spoof email that leads back to a much better made spoof AOL website . Demands you enter a long list of your personal details. However these won't be sent to AOL but straight into the hands of the scammers via a local script.

2. URL is choosen to look plausible, but on closer inspection is clearly not AOL!

3. Spoof website traced to a server in San Jose, USA.

 

" Dear, We were unable to process your last two billing transactions and your account is now past due. To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please update your billing information today by clicking here . We're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."...

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.

 

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