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FI Frauds

From phishing to Nigerian scams, the reputation of financial businesses is harmed by fraudsters. Pass on your expertise and experiences.

FI Frauds: Phishing - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

8. December 2011

Purportedly from Federal Insurance Company (quotes fictitious address at fdic.gov)
Subject: Insurance coverage of your business accounts
There are multiple versions of this scam, two are set out below

FI Frauds: LloydsTSB, UK

7. December 2011

Purportedly from: UK Lloyds, TSB (note, this is not the correct form of the bank's name)

Subject: Bank Notice!

Reply address: check@uklloydstsb.co.uk (not registered to LloydsTSB)

FI Frauds: Egg Bank, UK

11. November 2011

A remarkably unsophisticated phishing exercise might work precisely because it isn't trying to be too clever.

FI Fraud: Halifax, UK

20. October 2011

Phishing alert: Halifax, UK

FI Fraud: ACH

20. September 2011

Customers of ACH are targeted in this blatant phishing scam. This is a recurrent scam that has popped up several times in the past few months.

FI Fraud: Phishing scam targets PayPal customers, includes malware payload

14. September 2011

A phishing scam targeting customers of payment services provider PayPal is distributed by e-mail containing malware.

HKMA warns of fraudulent website

7. September 2011

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has added a suspected fraudulent website to its warned list.

FI Frauds: Halifax Bank, UK

7. September 2011

A phishing attack has been launched against customers of the UK's Halifax Bank.

FI Frauds: HKMA warns of fraudulent website

23. August 2011

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has issued a warning regarding a fraudulent website which has similarities to the website of Shanghai Commercial Bank.

Advance fee fraud: scam uses Bank of China, Hong Kong, as a hook

10. August 2011

Clearly a scam, and to judge by the English used, not even originating in Hong Kong or from a Chinese, the following scam mail is being circulatged in an e-mail with no subject line and spoofing the send address of a school.