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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 10

Apologies if this has already been covered. I did try a search but it proved rather fruitless.

I've been contacted by the 'Bank of America' stating the following:

Dear Bank of America Customer,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures,
we have detected a slight error in your account information.
To securely confirm your personal information please click on the link bellow:

http://www.bankofamerica.com/sas/sitekey/profile/step1.htm

Confirm Your Bank of America Account and SiteKey now to enjoy the benefits of
online banking and finance to avoid identity theft and fraudulent activities on
your account.

Note: We will be upgrading our yearly SSL EncryptedServer to prevent fraudulent
activity.

2007 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.

Of course, I've never had a profile on their site, in fact I've never had any contact whatsoever with the BOA, so I know this is a scam.

However, I can't understand what they're hoping to achieve. The link goes to what I believe is the official BOA site but to a page that doesn't exist.

Anyone have any info on this one and how it can be handled?[/i]

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:17 am

Moved here, most ordinary phishing mail. I'm always happy to hear from people who don't get 300 of them a day and have never heard of phishing. I wish I was one of them.

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 10

Yeah, I guessed it was phishing, just not a particularly good example (i.e. sending potential victims to a missing page at the actual bank).

Is this worth pursuing?

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:57 am

Breadbeard wrote:

sending potential victims to a missing page at the actual bank

That wouldn't make sense, would it? The link you quoted above wasn't the actual link in your phishing mail. Every phishing mail will work like this: www.hardcoreporn.com