We intercepted a nice Citibank phishing attempt. The email contains the notification that 1 message is waiting for you in the mail section so you will need to login.
Dear Customer,
You have one new message at .Citibank (South Dakota).
INBOX
From: Customer Service
Date: 10/07/2008
Subject: Official service renewal notification.
In order to read the message click here <http://www.***********.com/uploads/z/***/citibank/index.html> to [...]
October 7, 2008
Categories: Phishing . Tags: citibank, fraud, Phishing . Author: mxlab . Comments: Leave a Comment
MX Lab detects in increase in phishing emails between 09/04/2008 and 13/04/2008, bringing the phishing level up to 0,28% of all blocked messages where in the past this level was 0,03%.
These phishing emails are mostly regarding a “locked bank account” or “verify your details” but we see other phishing attempts targeting Google Adwords customers stating [...]
April 14, 2008
Categories: Phishing . Tags: Email security, fraud, identity theft, Phishing, Spam . Author: mxlab . Comments: Leave a Comment
A certain phishing email from ‘PayPal’ caught our attention. When investigating the phishing email we could find that this is a very professional one. The email in fact confirms your payment to a company, in this case Plimus, for an amout of$55,89 USD. The email provides a link to dispute the transaction and this is [...]
April 2, 2008
Categories: Phishing . Tags: Email security, fraud, identity theft, MX Lab, paypal, Phishing . Author: mxlab . Comments: Leave a Comment