Reactivate Your Online Banking

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New PHISH on the E-mail Distro Lists....

See the Headers here

To: x
Subject: Reactivate Your Online Banking
From: HSBC <alert.customer@hsbc.co.uk>
Message-Id: <1___@hsbc.co.uk>
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - isuzu.websitewelcome.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yahoo.[TLD]
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - isuzu.websitewelcome.com

Message in Body of E-mail:

Dear HSBC Member,

We have reason to suspect that your HSBC account may be in use by an unauthorized party.

Your account has recently been accessed from a foreign country, while we understand that you may be on vacation or traveling abroad, HSBC Security has a obligation to protect our user's security. Within 24 hours of this message, your account will be placed on hold to ensure your personal account safety. Verification of your specific account details will enable you to once again have full access to your HSBC account.

To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please submit your billing information today:
[fake Link Here goes to
http://70.84.137.34/~yahooco/htaccess/hsbc.co.uk/update_information/IB-hsbc/index.htm%22]

http://hsbc.co.uk/users/renewobligation?start=ok
Or contact HSBC Member Services Team. We're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Regards,
HSBC Team.

Report from SPAMCOP.NET

http://70.84.137.34/~yahooco/htaccess/hsbc.co.uk/update_information/IB-hsbc/index.htm"
host 70.84.137.34 (getting name) = isuzu.websitewelcome.com.

Tracking link: http://70.84.137.34/~yahooco/htaccess/hsbc.co.uk/update_information/IB-hsbc/index.htm"

Note the double-quote at the end of the .htm tag.

So BEWARE!

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[FW Admin]

This is actually what's called "phishing" and is designed to try and steal personal banking information from those that respond.

In addition, the actual website to which the links that are contained in the emails point, in many cases deploy a malicious script that may transfer a virus onto your computer.

It is always, without exception, advisable never to click on any links contained within emails received that contain this, or a similar content, from banks, financial institutions, credit cards etc. These business organizations never ever send emails to their customers or clients asking them to click on any links that request personal information.