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    Scam in Action

    Bogus Email Sent - As If From Key Bank (1-01-05)
    Another Way a Scammer Collects Your Information:




    Dear Key Bank customer. Please read this message and follow it's instructions

    Confirm Your Identity:
    We are performing maintenance, which may interfere with access to your Online Services. Due to these technical updates your online account has been flagged and we must confirm that you are the rightful owner of the account. To Confirm Your Identity click the link below, Please make sure you do this in a timely fashion as we look forward of bringing you updates regularly



    To get started, please click the link below:
    http://accounts.keybank.com../ConfirmHelp?start=yes
    <*http://212.233.6.214/.keybank/index.html* The real URL that you would be
     linked to, which in fact, generates from somewhere Belgium, not Key Bank>


    Important information from Key Bank:
    This e-mail contains information directly related to your account with us, other services to which you have subscribed, and/or any application you may have submitted.
    Key Bank and its service providers are committed to protecting your privacy and ask you not to send sensitive account information through e-mail.

     

    So you click the link in the email, and you are sent here
    which is a pop up window:

    (click picture for larger image of scam form)
    Scam Form


    However, when inspecting the actual URL (web address) of the page, we find that the form does not come from KeyBank, but a website hosted in Belgium:





    When you finish filling out the scam form, you are sent back to the legitimate site.

     

    Key Bank has information on how NOT to get scammed by email on their site:
     http://www.key.com/templates/t-ob3.jhtml?nodeID=E-2.23&link=middle


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