Wells Fargo Bank targeted by a Phishing Scam
Customers of the Wells Fargo Bank in Payette County, Idaho of late are being targeted by a phishing scam. Residents here received a mail urging them to upgrade to new security measures put in place by the bank.
The letter informed them the bank had put in place a procedure to help them avail of the new security measures. In order to access the new features recipients were asked to submit personal information, apparently, to the bank.
In what ought to be a dead giveaway, the letter asked recipients to submit all their personal financial information at one go. It urged them to note down their account name, address, social security number, credit card number, expiry date for the card, and its PIN number on a paper. Then it asked recipients to fax those details to a given number. Customers were asked to send the fax within the next 24 hrs failing which their accounts will be suspended.
Being asked of any (let alone ‘all’) of their financial information should raise a red flag for the mail’s recipients. Another thing that should set off alarm bells would be the tell-tale shaky language commonly used in such letters.
Those who would care to dig up would find one more anomaly. The number at which the fax is requested for is in Princeton, NJ. Neither the bank nor its credit card division has its corporate offices in Princeton.
But the fraudsters are hoping no one would notice.
Source: Ind-Ent.com
Photo by: Resedabear
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December 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pm