An
Email with the Subject "Payment Advice - Advice Ref:[B40945356696]" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:26:46 -0700
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "payment.advice@hsbc.com.hk" <payment.advice@hsbc.com.hk>.
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
0bankcreditpasswordcontactnumbersaccountpaymentserviceaccessvalidatemailuserconfidentialhsbcreference will securityach[b40945356696]financial services
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.
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[envelope-to:] => mc_mxw@o7e.net
[delivery-date:] => Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:26:46 -0700
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[x-mc-sender:] => betrothalstu9@esedona.net
[x-mc-ipaddr:] => host-92-24-6-182.static.as13285.net [92.24.6.182]
[from:] => "payment.advice@hsbc.com.hk"
[to:] =>
[subject:] => Payment Advice - Advice Ref:[B40945356696]
[date:] => Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:26:24 +0000
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[x-priority:] => 3
[x-mailer:] => cweenhruy 54
[message-id:] => <9951042675.KOKO5MIA754263@niefzhbzk.hphzbonodzm.su>
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[x-mc-filter-antivirus:] => Scanned for virus - Status 0
[x-mc-deliveryid:] => 130
[x-mc-filterskip:] => 0
[x-mc-spamscore:] => 0 T 49
[x-spam-status:] => No, score=0.0
[x-spam-score:] => 0
[x-spam-bar:] => /
[x-ham-report:] => Spam detection software, running on the system "lester.newsblaze.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: Sir/MadamUpon your request, attached please find payment e-Advice for your reference.Yours faithfullyHSBCWe maintain strict security standards and procedures to prevent unauthorised access to information about you. HSBC will never contact you by e-mail or otherwise to ask you to validate personal information such as your user ID, password, or account numbers. If you receive such a request, please call our Direct Financial Services hotline.Please do not reply to this e-mail. Should you wish to contact us, please send your e-mail to commercialbanking@hsbc.com.hk and we will respond to you.Note: it is important that you do not provide your account or credit card numbers, or convey any confidential information or banking instructions, in your reply mail.Copyright. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited 2005. All rights reserved [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 4.0 required) pts rule name description---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: hsbc.com.hk]-0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
[x-spam-flag:] => NO
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Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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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 maintain strict security standards and procedures to prevent unauthorised access to information about you. HSBC will never contact you by e-mail or otherwise to ask you to validate personal information such as your user ID, password, or account numbers. If you receive such a request, please call our Direct Financial Services hotline.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Should you wish to contact us, please send your e-mail to commercialbanking@hsbc.com.hk and we will respond to you.
Note: it is important that you do not provide your account or credit card numbers, or convey any confidential information or banking instructions, in your reply mail.
Copyright. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited 2005 All rights reserved.
We maintain strict security standards and procedures to prevent unauthorised access to information about you. HSBC will never contact you by e-mail or otherwise to ask you to validate personal information such as your user ID, password, or account numbers. If you receive such a request, please call our Direct Financial Services hotline.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Should you wish to contact us, please send your e-mail to commercialbanking@hsbc.com.hk and we will respond to you.
Note: it is important that you do not provide your account or credit card numbers, or convey any confidential information or banking instructions, in your reply mail.
Copyright. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited 2005 All rights reserved.