Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Phishing

I received an interesting email this morning from RBC. Here's a snippet:

Dear RBC Valued Customer,

Due to a recent security breach in the RBC computer systems, we are asking all customers to
immediately login and report any unnoticed password changes, unexplained funds depletion or
the likewise. Rest assured that we have the safety and privacy of our customers as our top priority
but please help us by following the instructions below:


Please click the following link, to verify your account activity & update your account information :
https://login.royalbank.com

if you click on the link it actually takes you to this web site in the czech republic.
http://cgi3.webzdarma.cz/rbc/cgi-bin/rbaccess/login.html

Basically these sites are just trying to get online bank accounts and passwords. From what I understand Banks will NEVER send out an email about something like this. They'll contact everyone by phone.

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