A Scam Email with the Subject
"Update Credit Limit [ June 14th 2012 ]"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:12:07 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"Tesco Bank" <logon@tescobank.co.uk>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
bankcreditwinaccountcustomerserviceprocesscustomverifysentmailbank tesco bank [ june 14th 2012 ](eg: billing address, phone)dearco-operation
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:
<logon@tescobank.co.uk>
envelope-to:
scams@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:12:08 -0700
message-id:
<288dd210-41074-e7205083679745@restondc>
reply-to:
"Tesco Bank" <uptodate@tescoupdate.com>
from:
"Tesco Bank" <logon@tescobank.co.uk>
to:
scams@HUN1P0T
subject:
Update Credit Limit [ June 14th 2012 ]
date:
Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:12:03 -0400
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
This e-mail has been sent to you by Tesco customer support to inform you that we were unable to verify your account details. This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information. (eg: billing address, phone)
2. Submitting incorrect information during registration process.
Due to this, to ensure that your service is not interrupted, we request you to confirm and update your information today
by clicking
here.
If you have already confirmed your information then please
disregard this message as we are processing the changes you
have made.
