Subject: Important information regarding your account.
From: "Bank of the West" <customerserv@securityupdate.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:44:29 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"Important information regarding your account."
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:44:29 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"Bank of the West" <customerserv@securityupdate.org>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
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NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.
"Bank of the West" <customerserv@securityupdate.org>
to:
<scams@HUN1P0T>
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking account, and multiple
password failures were present before the logons.
We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us.
If this is not completed by August 14, 2010, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been
used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.
