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Citibank phish

Larf ?! I nearly pissed myself.....

"Dear CitiBank valued member,

We are looking forward to your assistance and understanding and inform you about new CitiBusiness® department system updrade performed by security management team in order to protect our clients from increased online fraud activity, unauthorized account access, illegal funds withdrawal and also to simplify some processes.

The new updated technologies guaranty convenience and safety of CitiBusiness® account usage. New services for your account will be effective immediately after an account confirmation process by a special system activation application.

To take an advantages of current updrade you should login your account by using CitiBusiness® Online application. For the purpose please follow the reference:

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Please note that changes in security system will be effective immediately after relogin.

Current message is created by our automatic dispatch system and could not be replyed. For the purpose of assistance, please use the "User Guide" reference of an original CitiBusiness® website.

Thank you for using our services, CitiBusiness® Security Management Team."

Reply to
Daytona
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Did you report it to the hosts of the site ? (you don`t mention the redirect)

Reply to
Colin Wilson

I reported one once.

I didn't get a thank you (or any sort of reply at all).

I shan't be doing it again. Manners cost nothing.

tim

Reply to
tim (in sweden)

Why?? It's not a new fancy scheme at all, is it? Untill, of course, you _indeed_ are the "Dear CitiBank valued member" and this email has originated from Citi.

... which resolves to 192.193.183.46 and belongs to Citicorp Global Information Network, 388 Greenwich, New York, NY, US. So, nothing phishy so far. What was the *real* URL in the message source?

I sometimes "update" personal data, but with the name and address of the person who has registered the bogus domain. I always wanted to be nearby the moment they see "my" personal details.

Joe

Reply to
Joe Random

I think that he was referring to the grammetical errors.

It is true that this is normal for 419 mails, but phishing mails are normally much better. Some are believably good (assuming that is, you believe that your bank might atually contact you at all using this medium).

tim

Reply to
tim (in sweden)

Same here, with Alliance & Leicester.

Exactly my feelings

Fuck 'em.

Daytona

Reply to
Daytona

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