Friday 28 December 2007

Intelligent Finance - Warning!

Intelligent Finance Phishing EmailWell this one is short, sweet and to the point! I think it must hold the record for the shortest phishing email I have seen.

It gets straight to the point and misses out all of the usual threats. There is a warning that your account is due to expire - no reason given as to why and says 'it is strongly recommended to update it' - again, no reason why. Suppose it's going for the theory that if you don't provide too many details people might just fall for it.

As quite often happens, it's not personalised in any way, which a bank would do; there's no reason why a bank would suddenly ask you to remind them of your security details; the link is to an ip address (76.202.129.183), rather than a URL.

Don't click on it - it's a fake and you don't know what the destination page might do to your computer...

Here's the email:

Dear customer,

Please note that your Intelligent Finance Internet banking account is about to expire.
Is is strongly recommended to update it immediately. Update form is located here.

Sincerely, Intelligent Finance administration.

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