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Message-ID: <200407051438.36152.dhill+fulldisc@cricalix.net>
From: dhill+fulldisc at cricalix.net (Duncan Hill)
Subject: Huge amounts of Citipank phishing spam seen this weekend.
On Monday 05 July 2004 12:15, Feher Tamas might have typed:
> <b>Dear Citibank Customer</b>,
> <p> We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to
> your Citibank<br=
> <p><i>The login attempt was made from:<br>
> IP address: 173.97.087.24<br>
> ISP Host: cache-89.proxyserver.cis.com</i></p>
> <p> By now, we used many techniques to verify the accuracy
> whom you are dealing with. The system is called CitiSafe
> and it's<br>
> the most secure Citibank wallet so far.</p>
That's a pretty nice bit of dumb-user engineering. Couple of spelling
mistakes in the actual phishing pages (wget + less = wonderful), but
otherwise quite well crafted. I'd swear I even see a browser URL overlay or
similar to give the impression of a different site to the real one.
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