A Scam Email with the Subject "Online Banking Profile Update Required" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:33:20 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam. The sender was "Bank of America Alert"<onlinebanking@alert-bankofamerica.com>, although it may have been spoofed.
Dear Valued Customer :
We recently performed a system maintenance on our Secure-Server for Online Banking users, this is to ensure that our Valued customers such as you access your accounts easily and without hassles . This Upgrade was designed in order to provide a better and risk-free Online Banking session, during an attempt to upgrade your account into our newly-secured secured-server we were unable to update your account therefore leading us to send you this e-mail letter which was sent directly from our Secured Updating Server. You are required to click on the " Update Now " link stated below in order to update your account , clicking on the " Update Now " will take you to our external secured server ( Fully Secured ) where you will be required to fill in necessary information in order to complete your update process . Click on the " Update Now " link below :
Thank you for your understanding and correspondence, we also apologize for any inconveniences caused .
Online Banking Accounts Department -
Bank Of America .
Bank of America, Member FDIC.
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