Gone Phishing
Got an interesting email today. Someone phishing for Bank Al-Falah bank cards.

There is a link to http://alfalah.updatingprivateinfo.com/ and the email 'demands' that you go in there, enter your Bank card info and PIN! The fraudulent site is really well made copy of the original http://www.bankalfalah.com/ , right down to the non-working 'contact us' page!

The point of the excercise is for you to enter your Bank card number and PIN. The fraudia will then make a Bank card copy and start to take money out of your Bank account.

Quite simple.

A real Bank will call you up or just shut down your account.

The email is below.


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Sub: Be confident you're protected with Bank Alfalah's BankSecure
From: Bank Alfalah Security Team
To:
Date: Yesterday 22:30:12

Dear Bank Alfalah's Account Holder,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we were unable to verify your account information. This might be due to either one of the following reasons: 1. A recent change in your personal information (ie change of address). 2. Submitting invalid information during the initial enrollment process. 3. An inability to accurately verify your account information due to an internal error within our processors.

We demand that you take 5 minutes out of your online experience and renew your records to avoid running into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in your account suspension. Once you have updated your account records your internet banking service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

Please follow the link below and renew your account information.

http://www.bankalfalah.com/update/verify/ [link:http://alfalah.updatingprivateinfo.com/]



Thank you for your patience.
Sincerely, Bank Alfalah's Customer Service

- posted @ Friday, September 16, 2005