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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Another Citibank Phish

If the scammers are making any money, you'd think they'd use some of it to hire an editor to correct all the obvious mistakes in their phishing messages. Here's one full of errors that fails miserably in its attempt to look like it's from Citibank.

Dear CitiBank valued member,

We are looking forward to your support and understanding and inform you about new CitiBusiness® department system updrade performed by security management team in order to protect our clients from increased online fraud activity, unauthorized account access, illegal funds withdrawal and also to simplify some processes.

The new updated technologies guaranty convenience and safety of CitiBusiness® account usage. New services for your account will be effective immediately after an account confirmation process by a special system activation application.

To take an advantages of current updrade you should login your account by using CitiBusiness® Online application. For the purpose please follow the reference:

[LINK DELETED]

Please note that changes in security system will be effective immediately after relogin.

Current message is created by our automatic dispatch system and could not be replyed. For the purpose of assistance, please use the "User Guide" reference of an original CitiBusiness® website.

Thank you for using our services,
CitiBusiness® Administration.

2 Comments:

  • This is still making the rounds. I received it today.


    Dear CitiBank Customer,

    We are looking forward to your support and understanding and inform you about new CitiBusiness® department system updrade performed by security management team in order to protect our clients from increased online fraud activity, unauthorized account access, illegal money withdrawal and also to simplify some processes.
    ttJ6ZZJPJTJyK9nVkFImWunXIIkfGT7YcR5bQP2CyLaiWzfhfZEct39dLvrtozrBqxMtmOUVC5fyFuOV
    The new updated technologies guaranty convenience and safety of CitiBusiness® account usage. New services for your account will be effective immediately after an account confirmation process by a special system activation application.
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    To take an advantages of current updrade you should login your account by using CitiBusiness® Online application. For the purpose please follow the reference:

    https://citibusinessonline.da-us.citibank.com/cbusol/signon.do

    Please note that changes in security system will be effective immediately after relogin.
    52mNWhuaMNeKHBEgd1Nhc8mXqIzzYN54QtTMKmYzbcjRMZ910Xtc6GayoI7nydrpGkdqIb1VnkNcjXdk
    Current message is created by our automatic dispatch system and could not be replyed. For the purpose of assistance, please use the "User Guide" reference of an original CitiBusiness® website.
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    Best Regards,
    CitiBusiness® Security Team.
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    By Blogger Peter, at 7:13 AM  

  • Amazingly, the bogus site appears to be still up...

    By Blogger witless, at 5:20 AM  

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