Fake Abbey email doing the rounds

Sep 20, 2004 8 Replies
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Today rec'd an email supposedly coming from Abbey (see below) - unfortunately for them, Abbey have just changed their website homepage and looks nothing like the homepage in the link from the email. Also, what on earth is that telephone number. Certainly not a UK one. Better luck next time....


Dear Valued Customer,


- Our new security system will help you to avoid frequently fraud transactions and to keep your investments in safety.


- Due to technical update we recommend you to reactivate your account.


Click on the link below to login and begin using your updated Abbey account.



To log into your account, please visit the online banking

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If you have questions about your online statement, please send us a Bank Mail or call us at 1-800-374-9700



We appreciate your business. It's truly our pleasure to serve you.



Abbey Customer Care



This email is for notification only. To contact us, please log into your account and send a Bank Mail.


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Not at all, it looks identical. And its still up. And in fact it seemingly redirects to

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which is exactly the same URL as if you go to
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and also get redirected to
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No it doesn't - the old website was blue - the new one is orange and they've added a deck chair.

Clear your cache!

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p.s that number appears to be a Citibank telephone number so its not exactly a great scam, if it is.

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Just a guess but I wonder if Abbey has outsourced the service that send emails to customers to another org, and that "other org" also does work for Citibank, and that other org has screwed up?

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although the address abbey.com appears in the fake e-mail, the true link will be to another address - normally something like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/wifheifjiew . a clever fake site will even appear to display the correct address in your browser. The malicious address is disguised as the real address in these types of message

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It is an American phone number. Google thinks it belongs to Citibank.

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Followup; I guess you might well be right, just occurred to me that there is no way to tell since the message posted here is using the text cut and pasted and so we dont know what was in the original email, i.e. if there was some underlying java hiding the real URL.

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html is all you need

eg

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...but since the original message was posted in text.....

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