Subject: UPGRADE YOUR RBC ACCOUNT ONLINE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED IN 48HOURS
From: "rbc customer service" <alerts@rbc.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:57 -0700
A Scam Email with the Subject
"UPGRADE YOUR RBC ACCOUNT ONLINE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED IN 48HOURS"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:57 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"rbc customer service" <alerts@rbc.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
banklog insuspendcreditendedcheckscontactaccounttransactioncustomerserviceaccesscustomchecksecureonlinemailbank bank account royal bank will securitydear
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:
<alerts@rbc.com>
envelope-to:
scamdex@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:58 -0700
from:
"rbc customer service" <alerts@rbc.com>
subject:
UPGRADE YOUR RBC ACCOUNT ONLINE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED IN 48HOURS
date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:39:31 +0200
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html;charset="Windows-1251"
content-transfer-encoding:
7bit
to:
undisclosed-recipients: ;
message-id:
<SCX4ID@1207975198.H6464P18664>
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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