I heard something about this tonight on CBS11 TV on their
10 O'Clock news. Pilot Point based Point Bank has been at
the center of a mass phishing attempt originating from
Eastern Europe (Romania most likely). They're also hitting
via phone as well as email.
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cbs11tv.com/consumer/sca ··· 185.htmlWhile I haven't gotten any of these yet in any of my email
accounts, they're hammering my mom's Yahoo email, with many
of them getting into her inbox.
A sample code block from one (I have the original, unaltered
email saved - if it will submit to Phishtracker, I'll do so)
X-Apparently-To: x@yahoo.com via 66.163.178.145; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:59:03 -0800
X-Originating-IP:[217.221.58.234]
Return-Path:<update@pointbank.com>
Authentication-Results:mta270.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=PointBank.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:from 217.221.58.234 (EHLO serverw.witox.it) (217.221.58.234) by mta270.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:59:03 -0800
Received:from User ([212.241.211.169]) by serverw.witox.it with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:08:22 +0100
From:"PointBank" <update@PointBank.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject:Update Your Account!
Date:Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:16:29 +0100
MIME-Version:1.0
Content-Type:text/plain; charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit
X-Priority:3
X-MSMail-Priority:Normal
X-Mailer:Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081
X-MimeOLE:Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081
Bcc:
Return-Path:update@PointBank.com
Message-ID:<SERVERWzPYWYqBPd8RV00001787@serverw.witox.it>
X-OriginalArrivalTime:24 Dec 2007 18:08:22.0500 (UTC) FILETIME=[F87B7A40:01C84657]
Content-Length:499
Dear Customer,
PointBank temporarily suspended your account.
Reason: Billing failure.
We require you to complete an account update so we can unlock your
account.
To start the update process click the link below
hxxp://www.pointbank-update.com/
The information provided will be treated in confidence and stored in
our secure database.
If you fail to provide required information your account will be
automatically deleted from PointBank database.
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