An
Email with the Subject "Upgrade Your Account" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:06:57 -0700
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as First National Bank <service@fnb.co.za>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in
this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be
added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Scam TagCloud
bankverificationlockednationalsafeaccountcustomerserviceaccessprocesscustomonlinebank online bank national bank securitydear
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
EEEEEstdClass Object
(
[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => scams@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:06:57 -0700
[received:] => Array
(
[0] => from [195.238.74.192] (helo=s2.webruimtehosting.nl)by bartok.o7e.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)(Exim 4.63)(envelope-from )id 1HRCKn-0001oM-GLfor scams@scamdex.com; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:06:57 -0700
[1] => from apache by s2.webruimtehosting.nl with local (Exim 4.53)id 1HRCM8-000EGD-GPfor scams@scamdex.com; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:08:20 +0100
)
[to:] => scams@scamdex.com
[subject:] => Upgrade Your Account
[from:] => First National Bank
[reply-to:] =>
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/html
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 8bit
[message-id:] =>
[date:] => Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:08:20 +0100
[x-scamdex-scores:] => S:47 P:57 A:51 L:43 E:46 G:41
[x-scamdex-classtype:] => P
[x-scamdex-classscore:] => 57
[x-scamdex-totscore:] => 285
[x-scamdex-kw:] => access,account,bank,customer,first,locked,national,notification,online bank,process,safe,verification,verify
[x-scamdex-dir:] => P
[x-scamdex-id:] => P1204769119.M348993P20228V
[x-scamdex-copyright:] => This Email is Copyright Scamdex.com 2009, Reproduction Prohibited
)
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
Dear Valued Customer, Days ago, our online
banking security team has
observed multiple logons on your account, from different blacklisted
IP's, that's why we have
issued this security warning. Your online banking access has been
Blocked, to prevent further
unauthorized access for your safety
We have decided to put an extra verification process to ensure your
identity and your account
security. Please click on