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An 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 Email. The sender shows as "Bank of America Alert"<onlinebanking@alert-bankofamerica.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.
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.
© 2008 Bank of America Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Online Banking Profile Update Required.
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 :
Update Now
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.
© 2008 Bank of America Corporation. All Rights Reserved.