phishing email?

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VIRII

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Dear Client,

This message has been sent automatically by the Visa Security Program to this e-
mail address specified
during your credit card online transaction. For safety reasons your credit card
details are not shown in
this message.

ALERT
Your level of credit card authorization has been automatically modified during
your last online
transaction of GBP 245.72 to increase your account security. The charge for
this service is GBP 29.00.
Please confirm or cancel this operation through Visa Online Administration
Panel. It is strongly
recommended for you to increase your account security, as we could not identify
the user during the last
transaction. For further details on the transaction please see the attachment.

If you believe this has been the case of unauthorized use of your credit card
please report this
immediately to Verified by Visa and protect your Visa card online with a
personal password. Visa provides
reassurance that only you can use your Visa card online.


Regards
Verified By VISA

Learn more about the benefits of Verified by Visa http://www.visaeurope.com/promotion/vbv/uk/

Given that the site is not https:// and that they have not used my name, given any card details or quoted an amount that I recognise I assume that this is a phishing attempt.
Has anyone had anything similar?
 
If you don't recognise it as being you then yes it probably is a phishing attempt.

Might be worth a call to your bank in the morning to make sure though.
 
No, I haven't anything quite like this before but I mean how often are VISA going to contact you through email for matters as important as that (if it were true of course :p ) If it was really important they would probably actually send you a letter or give you a phone call. It's a fake without doubt.

I get the odd phising emails now and again, mostly from dodgy ebay scammers and the odd couple of banks of which I have no business with.

Whappers.
 
Craig321 said:
Yup, I got one exactly the same ;)

Amazing we both spent exactly the same down to the penny :p
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It is a pretty good attempt though, all the links go to genuine looking pages, links go on to retailers , halifax etc but that javascript window is rather suspicious.
I wonder how many people are caught by these things.
 
VIRII said:
It is a pretty good attempt though, all the links go to genuine looking pages, links go on to retailers , halifax etc but that javascript window is rather suspicious.
I wonder how many people are caught by these things.
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Lots of people get caught out. Didn't even fool me for a second though, I'm not old enough to have a Visa :rolleyes:
 
Cool :)

Castlecops however are building a massive db of all the spammers and phishing sites and sharing it with the Security community to allow them to improve their apps, so reporting it there is a good plan too.
 
The_KiD said:
Cool :)

Castlecops however are building a massive db of all the spammers and phishing sites and sharing it with the Security community to allow them to improve their apps, so reporting it there is a good plan too.
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Okies I'll do that after work as we can't get web based mail services at work.
 
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