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April 12, 2008

Error Detected in Your Account Information (3) – Halifax Phishing Email

Filed under: Phishing — Tags: , , — admin @ 11:07 am

Having gone a couple of quiet weeks on the Halifax Bank phishing emails, today one turned up in my inbox. Thankfully, due to the incompetence of this scammer, they have failed to make the link clickable to the webpage they have created. However, Halifax need to still get on an shut it down ASAP.

Email forwarded to: security@hbosplc.com at 11.30 (GMT +1) 12 MAr 2008.

FYI, here is the content of the phishing email;

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Dear Online Account Holder,

Access To Your Account Is Currently Unavailable .

Please click the link below to restore your account access.
RESTORE YOUR ACCOUNT ACCESS .
Thank you.
Customer Service
(c) Halifax Online Banking

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This is the link on the compromised domain: http://mondocad.ro/fax2/fax/formslogin.htm. As always, DO NOT follow this link and fill out any personal data. The link is here purely for people to compare with any suspicious emails they may receive & to monitor the uptime.

April 8, 2008

Good Day:From The Desk Of Barrister James Potong (Esq). – 419 Email Scam

Filed under: 419 Scams — Tags: , , — admin @ 12:31 am

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  • reply-to “Barrister James Potong (Esq)” <barrijamespotong@hotmail.com>
  • subject Good Day:From The Desk Of Barrister James Potong (Esq).

 From The Desk Of Barrister James Potong ,
James & Associate Chambers
37 Sathorn Tai Road, 
Bangkok Thailand
Email:barrijamespotong@hotmail.com
Tel: +66876724370.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you I believe you are a highly respected personality considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events.

Well, I am Barrister James Potong , a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.Steve Anderson, who used to work with Siamrak Company Limited. On the 21st of April 2003, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Sukhumvit Express Road.

Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident. Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client’s relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Finance Company, Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only).

Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 5 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the fund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House.

Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share the money in this order: 70% will be for me, 30% will be for you. I have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will make with the Finance House.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

You are needed as a next of kin to inherit your brother left fund.


Best regards .

Barrister James Potong  (Esq).

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April 4, 2008

Review Your Account Activity – Abbey Phishing Email

Filed under: Phishing — Tags: , , — admin @ 1:36 pm

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  • from ABBEY BANK <activity.alert@abbey.co.uk>
  • subject Review Your Account Activity

Subject : My account standings

Dear Valued Customer:

We have currently updated our online banking SSL server for better and secure online banking activities. It has come to our attention that you have not recently updated your online access.We are proactively notifying you of this activity so as to update your online access in our new ssl server. Failure to do this will result to limited online banking services.Follow the online services link below to update your online access.

https://myonlineaccounts2.abbeynational.co.uk/CentralLogonWeb/


Customer Support,
Abbey Bank Plc.

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Temporary Job Offer Pine Woods!! – Employment Email Scam

Filed under: Employment Scams — Tags: , , , — admin @ 4:11 am

“Pam Williams” is making the rounds again, this time using Pine Wood Furniture instead of Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company Ltd. A different company name being abused but the same fraudulent intent.

 The content of the email is as follows:

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PINE WOOD FURNITURE
15 Kilmandil Rd,
Cloughmills,
Ballymena,
BT44 9BH
Telephone and Fax: +44 (0) 28 2763 8653
http://www.pine-furniture.co.uk/index.html
http://www.pine-furniture.co.uk/gallery.html

 Once again i try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the  Pinewood,My name is (Mrs.)Pam Williams a Texan currently working as Pinewood Consultant.

I want to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without, affecting your present job? Actually i need a representative who can be working for Pinewood.

Its always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive payment’s twice in a month so i therefore decided to contact you,i am willing to pay you 10% for every payment received by you from our clients who makes payment through you.i do come to receive payment and have it cashed after i supply them raw materials.

  Just in case you are concerned about how i got to your contact,it was through the “American Chamber of Commerce” for trust worthy individuals.i was also directed on  how to make online search.

WE DO OFFER’S FLEXIBLE PROGRAM:
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 *TWO HOURS/DAY AT YOUR CHOICE,
  DAYTIME AND EVENING.
 *CHECKING AND REPLYING EMAILS.

N.B
REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL FOR ME TO CO-ORDINATE YOUR FORM WITHIN 24HRS,
SO I COULD GET BACK TO YOU WITH THE ACCEPTANCE LETTER.(p.a.m194@hotmail.com)

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April 1, 2008

from Miss susan koca – 419 Email Scam

Filed under: 419 Scams — Tags: , , — admin @ 8:58 pm

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Hello

I am miss Susan koca, am 20 years old from Cote d’Ivoire,daughter of Mrs Carolen Koca. I have 4.5 million USD which was made by my mother  before she died in oct 2005 which was left in a suspence account in a bank here in my country. I seek your permision to remmit this amount into your bank account so that I could come to your country for investment and to further my studies. I have accepted to offer you a resonable percentage of the total
sum for your desire to assist me. 

Best Regards, 
miss Susan koca.

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