Halifax | IMPORTANT SECURITY ALERT

This one has taken the time to put a Halifax banner across the top of the email - along with a picture of the guy from their adverts. There's also some waffle down the bottom about needing Flash 5 to access the site. This has been taken from the bank's own website, but it's over ayear out of date. Must be a phishing template from some time ago...

The email tries to make out that the recipients Halifax Bank Account has been subject to some attempted breach of security, and that these actions are to reinstate access to the account. This sort of email would never be sent. If a bank had reason to suspend access to an internet account system they would do so, then post the new security details via Royal Mail (been there, had it happen). So don't fall for this trick.

In this case the target URL is http://stolnick-8marta-8b-r1-c1-45.ekb.unitline.ru/halifax-online.co.uk/_mem_bin/halifax_LogIn/formslogin.aspsource=halifaxcouk/ - but I've no idea what unitline.ru is nor whether it is just an innocent website that's been hikacked for this purpose. Looks like that might be the case.

Anyway, leave the link and delete the email.

IMPORTANT SECURITY ALERT

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Please note that our system recently noted that your attemption of signing on to your account was failed while some errors occured during the processing update of your online account you are having with our bank..

We sincerely here by to notify you that you should kindly follow below link to update your online account for your security safety ensured by our financial insititution.


https://www.halifax-online.co.uk/_mem_bin/FormsLogin.asp?source=halifaxouk

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you choose to ignore our request, your account may leads to be temporarily suspended