citibank phishing attack.

October 8, 2004 7:51 AM | | Comments (3)

Had a nice citibank email this morning warning me that I needed to log in and check my security details. Amazing - just how did they know that I was using citibank to hoard my millions earnt from those poor dead people in nigeria who I didn't even know I was related to?
It looks very authentic and works by including a reference to the real website, so as you hover over the mail it the destination shows the real link address. However, they've made the email an imagemap and its the imagemap that links to some obfuscated url which ultimately links through to http://211.97.248.60/cit/index.htm This is a VERY slow loading server in china somewhere but they have taken down the affected webpages

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By resyk on October 8, 2004 1:27 PM

Yes, I had the exact same experience. The general tech level of these emails has risen a lot over the last year - some of them are becoming scarily professional.

For myself, and the nerds I generally associate with - they are not an issue. But I do wonder at how some of my *ahem* less technical relations might react.

By Laila* on October 8, 2004 4:12 PM

Only the greedy ones were mostly victimized by this scam. So, nothing to worry about.

I found your site through BlogExplosion.

Regards,

Laila*

By Mark M. on October 10, 2004 10:23 PM

It is funny that some people are so nieve to believe this stuff. I get crap all the time from coworkers about great deals.....delete

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