A Scam Email with the Subject
"First Banks Certificate Renewal."
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:21:44 -0700 and has been classified as a
Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam.
The sender was
"First Banks Administration" <connect@firstbanks.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
banknotificationclientsecuresentmail will (last notice!)(certificate renewal notice)
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.
return-path:
<connect@firstbanks.com>
envelope-to:
tact_1@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:21:44 -0700
received:
from [117.198.148.24] (helo=117.198.148.24)by gogol.HUN1P0T with esmtp (Exim 4.68)(envelope-from <connect@firstbanks.com>)id 1K3tru-0006zl-QMfor tact_1@HUN1P0T; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:21:44 -0700
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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Certificate owner must renew the certificate before expiry date.
Your certificate expiration date - 5th june 2008.
The system will send email (Certificate Renewal Notice) to the certificate owner ten hours before the certificate is due to expire, if it has not been renewed.
Upon receiving the renewal notice, certificate owner is required to connect to
First Banks Certificate Management System and present the client certificate.
Secure Server e-Cert & Developer e-Cert
Certificate owner has the responsibility to renew the certificate before expiry date.
Successful renewed application will receive an email notification from First
Banks.
Applicant can just browse to the URL stated in the email and then download the certificate.
