An
Email with the Subject "Access to e-banking has been suspended." was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:11:21 -0800
and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email.
The sender shows as Hsbc Bank UK <download.hsbcapplicationform@hsbc.co.uk>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in
this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be
added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Scam TagCloud
banksuspendendedaccessbank nhsbc bank hsbc
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 investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
EEEEEstdClass Object
(
[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => scamdex@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:11:21 -0800
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from mu.lunariffic.com ([209.200.242.241])by chester.loopbiz.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)(Exim 4.69)(envelope-from )id 1PqC4H-0004Vb-62for scamdex@scamdex.com; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:11:21 -0800
[1] => from mu.lunariffic.com (mu.lunariffic.com [127.0.0.1])by mu.lunariffic.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1HM9dJT006426for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:09:40 -0800
[2] => (from habib6@localhost)by mu.lunariffic.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id p1HM9db8006420;Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:09:39 -0800
)
[date:] => Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:09:39 -0800
[to:] => scamdex@scamdex.com
[subject:] => Access to e-banking has been suspended.
[from:] => Hsbc Bank UK
[message-id:] => <13074628002.16739@hsbc.co.uk>
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 8bit
[x-spam-status:] => No, score=1.8
[x-spam-score:] => 18
[x-spam-bar:] => +
[x-ham-report:] => Spam detection software, running on the system "chester.loopbiz.com", hasidentified this incoming email as possible spam. The original messagehas been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or labelsimilar future email. If you have any questions, seethe administrator of that system for details.Content preview: HSBC Bank UK The world's local bank Dear Valued Client [...]Content analysis details: (1.8 points, 4.0 required)pts rule name description---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relaydomain0.7 HTML_TAG_BALANCE_BODY BODY: HTML has unbalanced "body" tags0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts0.0 T_REMOTE_IMAGE Message contains an external image
[x-spam-flag:] => NO
)
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.
Hsbc is sending you this notification message
because we seem to be having errors in the proper verificatin of your
account. This might be due to one of the following reasons:
*A recent Change in your security number
*A recent Change in your billing information or
*An Internal error within our servers
To rectify this error as soon as possible please click on the log on button
below and verify your account information
Failure to verify your information will lead to the temporary suspension of
your account online for security reasons