A Phishing Attempt On Capital One

Posted by Ken

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This is a phish scam if I’ve heard one:

Customer ID : 0000-122235432-65AGUEW14386-PSITA

This e-mail is to inform you that your account will be suspended within 48 hours due to your Account Inactivity. You will have to confirm certain Account Information in order to continue your account subscription.

Click the link below to verify your information
[link snipped]

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Wow, looks and sounds professional, but one thing I couldn’t show you was the return email address they used. It was from Yahoo! Geesh, you know times are rough when a company as big as Capital One has to use an email service from Yahoo.

The URL that I removed was nothing but an IP address. Oddly enough, the underlying link was the same as the one displayed. So they put all that effort into making professional and worrisome message, but didn’t care about the URL.

Just be careful when you receive emails having anything to do with your money.

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