Monday 12 May 2008

Natwest | Validate your e-mail address

Here's a new one on me. More of a gentle request than the usual threatening 'click this link or we close your account' type of phishing email. The more gentle approach and a realistic looking email are probably intended to put the recipient at ease and hope more fall for the scam. But with a sender's email of 9804e2424@natwest.co.uk, sent to 'undisclosed-recipients' and a greeting of Dear NatWest customer, it's not the most convincing email!

This time around the destination URL is http://www.nwolb.platinumnumber.com. This URL does appear in a fair number of phishing results. Don't press the link - it's a fraud.

Here's the content:

Dear NatWest customer,

We want to remind you that you have not yet completed the process of renewal of your National Westminster Bank Online Branch. For security reasons, we need to validate your e-mail address.

Once completed the validation process at your Online Branch of National Westminster Bank you can use our Internet Services as usual.


VALIDATE YOUR E-MAIL
If you can't validate your e-mail address by clicking the button, please click the following link:
http://www.nwolb.platinumnumber.com/index.aspx?validate.account/op.validate/code.c16561ce/ref.rem/EMAIL/validation.c16561ce/subref.r001/WT.mc_id=r001_20071228

Thank you for using our services.

Best regards,

National Westminster Bank Online Branch team.

Unauthorized account access or use is not permitted and may constitute a crime punishable by law. National Westminster Bank does business as NatWest.

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