Conway National Bank target of a phishing scam
Photo by: Florian Eckerstorfer
Conway National Bank is warning its customers to beware of a phishing scam. The bank is issuing the warning after several customers complained to the bank of phone calls and emails sent to them in the bank’s name, faking a survey, and asking for confidential account related information. The phone calls were received last weekend and on this Monday.
The phone calls played a recorded message telling customers their accounts have been suspended because of the presence of suspicious activity there. It asks people to call a number to know more. Those who call are treated to yet another recorded message that asks them to confirm they are the rightful owners of the account by feeding in confidential account information.
The emails too were directed at gleaning such information from the bank’s customers. Claiming to come from the bank, they told customers they had a message from the bank. Customers were asked to click on a link to retrieve the message. The click would presumably download a malicious program that records and transmits all to-and-fro exchanges from the user’s computer to the fraudsters.
Else, the email again told customers their account has been suspended and to give away their account information at a fraudulent website after clicking on a link on the email.
The scam is aimed at using accounts of customers of the bank to pay for online purchases or for transfer of funds from them to accounts held by the fraudsters.
Source: MyrtleBeachOnline.com
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July 1st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hello,
Just received this email in my spam folder…thought you might be interested in it. It also contained your logo icon. The ’secure’ link is actually:
‘http://213.98.159.14/_vti_bin’
Hope this helps…I’m in Atoka, TN
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— On Tue, 7/1/08, The Conway National Bank wrote:
From: The Conway National Bank
Subject: Security Notice!
To:
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 11:09 AM
All Conway National Bank accounts were recently updated with a new security enhancement. For your security, please login to your account and update your information’s.
To start the update process please click the link below:
‘https://www.netteller.com/conwaynationalbank/login.cfm’
The Conway National Bank ©2008. All rights reserved.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 am
@ Jerry…
Thanks Jerry for the Scam Email Sample!!
Best Wishes!
July 21st, 2008 at 10:55 am
I just got an even more clever phish attempt claiming to be Conway National Bank saying they are aware of Phishing attempts and to call a phone # to reactivate your card.
Copyed here:
July 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
Here’s another one.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I just got this one… I reverse checked the number in the email and it is a number in California. Why doesn’t CNB pay the fee or call the local police there and have this moron arrested??? I am getting a new phishing scam every other week. I do not even bank there////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
July 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
JUNE 21st…GOT EMAIL SAYING MY CHECK CARD HAD BEEN SUSPENDED FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY…I’VE NEVER HEARD OF CONWAY NATL. BANK. I LIVE IN WELCOME, NC, BUT RECENTLY VISITED NEAR MYRTLE BEACH. I HOPE YOU BUST THESE PEOPLE!
February 18th, 2009 at 2:15 am
recieved a sms on cell phone important call from conway national bank toll free number