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Charter One Bank - Confirm Your Details To Avoid Service Cancellation
Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at Charter One Bank by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
Charter One Bank never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.
The REAL URL of the spoof website is disguised as "https://www.charteronebank.com/general/ custdetailsconfirmation.as=p".
The REAL URL of the spoof website is hidden by a hyperlinked image in the body of the email. This is a technique used to get past spam filters that can only read normal text.
The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual Charter One Bank URL.
The entire email consists of nothing but an image that contains all of the body text and links to a spoof website. This is a technique used to get past spam filters that can read normal text but not images.
Email:
"Technical services of the Charter One Bank are carrying out a planned software upgrade."