Wednesday 28 May 2008

HSBC - You Have 1 Unread Message

This one seems quite poopular as I've received it a few times. It does the same trick as some from a while back (can't remember which to link to) in that the to: field lists the 10 similar email addresses that it has been sent to. Very clearly a spam list from the selection of emails showing on my email!

It takes on the form again of the very simple 'you have a message' to make you wonder what is going on. In my experience, the banks don't run these sort of systems anyway. Maybe someone somewhere does.

The link points to http://ww4.hsbc.com.f009c270.com/1/2/HSBCINTEGRATION_CAM10/0000D5SM7I8qYYI1RkSXyjh274A12ntf1ep0IDV_URL, which took some effort to get without pressing the link! I couldn't see it at first as the graphic was being blocked. f009c270.com doesn't yet appear in any search results.

Here's the content:

Dear Internet Banking Customer,

You have received 1 new message from HSBC Bank plc.

Best Regards.
HSBC Banking plc Security Department Team.

* Please do not reply to this email as your reply will not be received.

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