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Posted on 06 November 2007
Websense Security LabWebsense® Security Labs(TM) have received reports of a phishing attack that targets Banco De Credito Centroamericano customers. Users receive a spoofed email message, which asks them to update their account because new security measures have been put in place. The email provides a link to a phishing site that attempts to collect personal and account information.
This phishing site is hosted in the United States and was down at the time of this alert.
Translated text of phishing email:
Dear "Mi Banco Bancentro" Customer. Thank you for being one more of us, and for trusting us.
We are glad to inform you, that, we now counting with a new security process in our servers system, with the latest in Swedish Banking. This allow us to inform you that for this reason you must be part of our new update process. It's a fast process which will take only about 30 seconds, you must log in into your account and that is all, as simple as that.
For such reason we invite you to enter using the links that we provided to you in the email you received. Using our automatic ticket generator we assigned you an ID number, with this ID # you will be successfully registered.
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For additional details and information on how to detect and prevent this type of attack:
http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=816
