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Old 22 January 2004, 04:08 AM
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I received this e-mail today on my little used Yahoo account, I wonder if it is genuine

Subject: Citionline EMAIL Veerification - ********@yahoo.com

Dear Citibank-Online Cleint,

This message was sent by the Citibank-Online sevrer to veerify your email
address. You must cplmeote this pcrseos by clicking on the link
below and enteering in the small window your Citi Debit
card nummber and pin that you use on Atm.
This is done for your porctetion -B- becouse some of our memebrs no
lnoegr have acescs to their email adrssdees and we must verify it.

To veerify your e-mail adderss and access your CitibankOnline account, klick on
the link below. If ntohing hapenps when you clic on the link -w copy
and paste the link into the address bar of your web browser.

http://www.citibank.com/?t4W8dVBAGikB1AUnR4R4OqLj35lvcNTuTFD7BeHhy3TzDMYvQ P

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Thank you for using Citibank-Online!
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It took me a while to figure out what was going on because my Google toolbar was blocking the popup that asked for the Debit Card details. URL actually takes you to www.citionline.com (looks to be Korean) it then very quickly pops up a box asking for your Debit Card details and at the same time loads the genuine Citibank website in the main window.

Someone really should check their spelling before sending out scam e-mails like this


[Edited by sasim - 1/22/2004 4:12:04 AM]
Old 22 January 2004, 06:05 AM
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Hello

The actual implementation of the scam is pretty good -- it forwards you to the right site, but pops up another window asking for details.

But like you I received some really badly worded, badly spelt e-mail.

Stupids.

Steve.
Old 22 January 2004, 10:38 AM
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they must have wrote the email in notepad, hence no spell checker!
Old 22 January 2004, 10:57 AM
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Reported on 12 January, shut down shortly after. Is the 2nd window popping up again?

Richard
Old 22 January 2004, 11:06 AM
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mm that google ad is nice an relevant
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