Bank account phishing

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 5

Hi Guys
I always get these in my mailbox.

Quote:

Dear ABSA Customer,

We recently reviewed your account and we are suspecting that your ABSA Online account may have been accessed from an unauthorized computer.

This may be due to changes in your IP address ot location. Protecting the security of your account and of the ABSA Network is our primary concern.

We are asking you to immediately login and report any unauthorized withdrawals, and check your account profile to make sure no changes have been made.

To protect your account, please follow the instructions below:

* DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH OTHER USERS

* LOG OUT AFTER ACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNT ONLINE

* DO NOT ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT FROM A PUBLIC PC

Please click on the following link to verify your account activity:

http://ib.absa.co.za/ib/ib.jsp

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we appreciate your support in helping us in maintaining the integrity of the entire ABSA system.

Please login as soon as possible.

Thank you,

ABSA Security Team

If you go to the link it takes you to what looks like a login page of the real banks website.
This is the site it links you to.
http://www.d@[email protected]/tienda/includes/functions/absa_secure_server/absa.html

This is waht the real banks page looks like.
http://[email protected]/abs@coz@/

If you click on home page or anything else on the fake page, it links you to the real sites corresponding page.

Is there a way to shut this down?

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18312

Hi,

While we don't deal with phishing here at Eater, it is good to report them. The most effective way is to find the contact address at the real bank and send it to them. They'll make sure it gets shut down. Very Happy

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 5

Is there a way I can find out where the site is hosted and get the host to block the site or something.
I have reported it to the bank already, ill see how long it takes to get shut down.

Hellish Taskmaster Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Posts: 527

^ It's dead.

I believe that you can get all the stuff you want at network-tools.com and the Fake Bank Forum.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Here is some light reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

Doing anything other than just reporting it to the spoofed entity is really a waste of time, although there are some sites that track phishing pages; Firefox is also pretty good at identifying fraudulent web pages.

Some phishing sites also contain malware, so if your security isn't up to snuff, you can run into issues there.