From: Halifax Bank Plc <account.review@halifax.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:48:26 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"Internet Banking Update"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:48:26 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
Halifax Bank Plc <account.review@halifax.co.uk>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
bankhalifaxloginverificationcontactaccountcustomerinternetaccessprocesscustomverifyonlinemailbank online banknhalifax bank confidentialin active will securityachdear
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:
<nobody@server1.generichost.net>
envelope-to:
submissions@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:48:26 -0700
to:
submissions@HUN1P0T
subject:
Internet Banking Update
from:
Halifax Bank Plc <account.review@halifax.co.uk>
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html
content-transfer-encoding:
8bit
message-id:
<E1JdPcN-00032k-5r@server1.generichost.net>
date:
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:48:07 -0400
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SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.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're making some exciting
changes that will make your online banking experience even better, We
therefore request you to verify your location.
Halifax Online Access
Verification
Please note that Your Halifax Online
Banking has been flagged by our system and all flagged account required
verification for Online Banking to remain active due to recent changes we
have made to our online banking system.
This verification will allow us to activate new features for your account on
our system and to protect your account fully against ID Theft. We have made
these changes to ensure only You have access and use your Halifax Account's.
Please click the link below to proceed with verification process.
We will never contact
customers via email asking to supply any confidential information, telephone
or internet banking login details via email that is why we want you to
verify your account by our internet automated machine.
