Commonwealth Bank

Commonwealth Bank

Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from Commonwealth Bank and instructing you to update your account to maintain access appears to be a phishing scam. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use official looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a corporate website that you have an account with. Once you are at the site, they will ask you to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information. If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information. However, if you are not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact Commonwealth Bank directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact Commonwealth Bank immediately and depending on what information you gave out, it may be wise to take measures to protect against identity theft (e.g. contact credit agencies, close accounts, cleanse computer). Many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails are set forth throughout this website and below:

Commonwealth Bank

Help

Attention! Security Update

Dear Commonwealth Bank user:

This is to inform you that a new security feature has been added to our SSL security server database to give our NetBank customers a better, fast and more secure online banking service. Here are just some of the ways that NetBank protects your funds and personal information. .

Personalized Identification Questions - extra for important transaction
New Email Alerts and Bank Messages
Additional Logins

In order to confirm your account and to preserve the account stability, you are required to login to your account using the following link below:
http://www.commbank.com.au/update

Attention! Be notified that your account would be temporarily locked if you do not activate your account through our new security SSL server within the next three business days.

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From:	"Commonwealth Bank" <attention@email-commbank.com.au>
Subject:	Attention! Security Update
Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:11:37 +0300