[ale] OT: online banking hack

[Christopher Bergeron]

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Jim, you might want to escalate this and send the message (with headers, 
etc) on to the FBI.gov and DHS.gov sites.  Maybe I'm being paranoid 
here, but these days, a company like the Bank of America would be an 
extremely tempting target for terrorists and the like.  If for no other 
reason than that it contains the name "America" (and Bank) - two of the 
things that terrorist freaks seem to have a distaste for.  If I'm not 
mistaken most of the airlines that were used on Sept. 11th were 
"American" Airlines.  Anyway, the point is that I think that you should 
forward the information on to DHS.gov / FBI.gov.  In fact, I'd like to 
request that you do so as a favor for me.

Best Regards,
CB


Jim Philips wrote:

|Today I got an e-mail from Bank of America requesting that I go to their
|server and log on to online banking. The e-mail provided a link I could use
|for calling up the logon page. The problem is that I don't have an account
|with Bank of America. The link showed up in the e-mail as https, but 
when you
|click on it, you get an http page with only an IP address. This is a naked
|attempt to fool people into giving up their logins and passwords for online
|banking. I called Bank of America and forwarded the e-mail (which was 
caught
|and flagged by Spamassassin). Apparently, a whole batch of these went out
|today about 1 o'clock.
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