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UK phishing scam takes a new tack

Variation on the 419 scam offers access to £9m

Ken Young, vnunet.com 25 Nov 2005
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Websense Security Labs has received reports of a new UK phishing scam that does not target any particular financial or e-commerce brand.

Instead users receive an email from a bank welcoming them as a customer, and claiming that they are the beneficiary to funds from the 'Alliance Security and Finance Company' in Amsterdam.

The email includes a URL to the bank and provides a username and password to log-in to their 'account'. When the user logs in, the account information is displayed along with a balance of more than $9m.

The website then requests the user to transfer the funds to their own bank account, and asks for details of that account in order to perform the transfer.

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