Bank Of America Possible Scam Attempt

[badstar]

I'm not a Bank Of America customer, but I just got this email and it immediately raised some red flags in my eyes, thought I'd post it here just to alert any BOA customers. I've sent an email to them about it.


Here's the text:

it came from email address secure.mail@bofa.com


Dear Customer, laffineuse.

You are receiving this message, due to you protection, Our Online Technical Security Service Foreign IP Spy recently detected that your online account was recently logged on from am 65.141.117.67 without am International Access Code (I.A.C) and from an unregistered computer, which was not verified by the Our Online Service Department.

If you last logged in you online account on Thursday April 5th 2007, by the time 6:45 pm from an Foreign Ip their is no need for you to panic, but if you did log in your account on the above Date and Time, kindly take 2-3 minute of your online banking experince to verify and register your computer now to avoid identity theft, your protection is our future medal.

Verification Link

Notice: You can acess your account from a foreign IP or country by getting am (I.A.C) International Access Code, by contacting our local brances close to you.

Comments

[twistedcat.livejournal.com]

heh. i got that one too. i just sent a spam report.

i also do not have a BofA acct

[c-korone.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha haha ha! That's the lamest phishing scam I've seen yet!

[caelesti.livejournal.com]

ooh, thanks- I just got this e-mail!

I did a double take though cuz my bank does have a name with "Bank" and "America" in it- but that's pretty generic. Think it's American Bank?
Yeah, I can't remember the name of my bank- shows how broke i am LOL.

[saratoga80.livejournal.com]

It's a classic fishing attempt with a spoof email, and has nothing to do with BoA- with whom I do have an account and have been banking with BoA (or more accurately, it's acquired predecessors, Fleet and Norstar) all of my life. These occur with Fifth Third Bank, TransUnion, etc. If you go to snopes.com they'll give you the details. Whatever you do, just delete the emails and don't respond to them. They're designed to look official, but any Bank would contact you via mail for such information, not email.