Oct 06 2009

Bank of Ireland Phishing Emails

Category: SecurityTeknovis @ 21:24

I got my first Bank of Ireland phishing email last week, and I have got about three per day since! A typical one looks like this:

Subject: 365 Banking: You are required to confirm your email address
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:50:23 +0200
From: Bank of Ireland <accounts@boi.ie>
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

http://www.sp-ad.com/.www.365online.ie/

The url looks really convincing, and I found it quite difficult to explain how to extract the domain name to some non-technical friends.

The page looks really convincing also! I did not visit it myself, but I used an online service to capture a screenshot of it:

Bank of Ireland Phishing Screenshot

Bank of Ireland Phishing Screenshot

The real page can be viewed at https://www.365online.com/.

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