Re: Huge amounts of Citipank phishing spam seen this weekend.

[Duncan Hill <dhill+fulldisc () cricalix net>]

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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