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New bank phishing scam with real domain name |
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 02 May 2006 |
A new bank phishing scam is on the loose with the scammer using a genuine registered top order domain name to entice people to believe that it is a real bank.
Using the domain, www.commonwealth-security.com, sophisticated scammers
are using the well worn method of trying to get people to visit their
site under the guise of being from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia
and asking people to update their details. The level of sophistication
of this phishing attempt, however, is such that the scammers are using a top
level registered domain name. The scam site can be traced back to
www.comcast.net, which is probably the unwitting host.{moscomment}
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