➤ Email Fraud Alert – Updates to Online Banking Demo

Another fraudulent email going around by scammers. They are now trying to get you to login into a fake page to see the updates they made to their online software.

Example Email:
Note: scammers could use ANY bank name to trick you.
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From: PNC Bank Support Center [mailto:pinaclesupport@pnc.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 9:50 AM
To: Your email address would be here
Subject: Read Carefully – Important Notification

PNC
LEADING THE WAY

All PNC Bank Business Customers,

We notify you that the sign on process to PINACLE Express is changing.
The updates will be applied at the begining of April.
We recommend you to look through the DEMO to avoid possible access
problems in future.
This is an automated message. Please, don’t reply.

Sincerely, PNC Bank Administration

Copyright 2010, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Don’t be fooled into clicking on the “DEMO” link. It will redirect you to a fraud site which will either upload malicious virus to you computer to grab anything that has to do with your identity or send you to another site where it will try to sell you something which could also jeopardize your personal information.

Also they use a masking software to make the email look like it is coming from PNC Bank but it’s not.

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One Response to “➤ Email Fraud Alert – Updates to Online Banking Demo”

  1. Andrew Pelt says:

    great stuff thx

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