Heads up if you have online Bank of America

[vray]

I just received an email from "Bank of America Protection" saying there was fraudulent activity on my account and would I please click here to verify. It looks kinda authentic, so if you are not paying attention, it may slip by. Here is the email, a closer read reveals some funny shit:

Dear Customer, chrisrusu.

You are receiving this message, due to you protection, Our Online Technical Security Service Foreign IP Spy recently detected that your online account was recently logged on from am 75.213.94.6 without am International Access Code (I.A.C) and from an unregistered computer, which was not verified by the Our Online Service Department.

If you last logged in you online account on Thursday April 5th 2007, by the time 6:45 pm from an Foreign Ip their is no need for you to panic, but if you did log in your account on the above Date and Time, kindly take 2-3 minute of your online banking experince to verify and register your computer now to avoid identity theft, your protection is our future medal.


Verification Link

Notice: You can acess your account from a foreign IP or country by getting am (I.A.C) International Access Code, by contacting our local brances close to you.


I love the "Online Technical Security Service Foreign IP Spy" :rofl:

 

[Ray Wallace]

I forwarded a similar email to my BofA technical rep who said he will chase it down to determine the sender. Lots of these from phony BofA, Chase, CitiBank, sources. Don't touch them. Delete immediately, without response.

 

[az_max]

if you ever have any questions about an email, call the 800 number on the back of your bank card. I used to get 2-3 a month from all kinds of banks that I don't have account with. I turn them in to the fraud dept of that bank. Make sure you forward with full headers for them to track the IP. $5 says it's from china or korea.

(nice spelling in the email, btw)

 

[vray]

I used the "report phishing" function in gmail to notify whomever. The verify link pointed to some cooking website in france, most likely the site has been compromised.

 

[antichrist]

Many of the phishing scemes wouldn't work except for the widespread use of web based email. If people would disable viewing the mail as html the bogus URL's would show up, not the bank URL.