An
Email with the Subject "WARNING: CONFIRM YOUR ONLINE BANKING RECORDS" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:42:29 -0800
and has been classified as a Phishing, ID Theft Scam Email.
The sender shows as "Washington Mutual Security Department" <confirm@wamu.com>.
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
washingtonbanklog insuspendactivityendedwinsafeaccountrecordsaccesssecureverifybuysellonlineonline bankusermutual will security
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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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[1] => from 168.216.212.149 by ; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:33:57 +0600
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[from:] => "Washington Mutual Security Department"
[reply-to:] => "Washington Mutual Security Service"
[to:] => mxw@scamdex.com
[subject:] => WARNING: CONFIRM YOUR ONLINE BANKING RECORDS
[date:] => Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:38:57 -0100
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[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769091.M605080P20228V
[x-scamdex-copyright:] => This Email is Copyright Scamdex.com 2009, Reproduction Prohibited
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WAMU is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its
community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your
account, WAMU employs some of the most advanced security systems in
the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the WAMU system
for unusual activity.
In accordance with WAMU's User Agreement and to ensure that your
account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited.
Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been
resolved.
In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we
may require some specific information from you for the following
reason:
We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as
possible.
Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of
time, it may result in further limitations on the use of your account
or may result in eventual account closure.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand
that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your
account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to
temporaly suspend your account.
Thank you for using WAMU!
Security Center Advisory!
WAMU is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its
community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your
account, WAMU employs some of the most advanced security systems in
the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the WAMU system
for unusual activity.
In accordance with WAMU's User Agreement and to ensure that your
account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited.
Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been
resolved.
In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we
may require some specific information from you for the following
reason:
We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as
possible.
Click here to verify your account
Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of
time, it may result in further limitations on the use of your account
or may result in eventual account closure.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand
that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your
account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to
temporaly suspend your account.
