An Email with the Subject "Important Notice: Upgrade Your Hsbc Account Information" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:18:22 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "HSBC Security Departament" <customerservices@hsbc.co.uk>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Dear Sir/Madam,
© HSBC Bank plc 2002 - 2006
always look forward for the high security of our clients. Some
customers have been receiving an email claiming to be from
HSBC advising them to follow a link to what appear to be a
HSBC web site, where they are prompted to enter their
personal Online Banking details. © HSBC Bank is in no way involved
with this email and the web site does not belong to us.
© HSBC Bank plc is proud
to announce about their new updated secure system. We updated
our new SSL servers to give our customers a better, fast and
secure online banking service.
Due to the recent update of the servers, you are requested to
please update your account info at the following link.
Personal Internet Banking:
http://hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/pib-home
Business Internet Banking:
http://hsbc.co.uk/1/2/marketing/biblogon
*Important*
We have asked few additional information which is going to be
the part of secure login process. These additional information
will be asked during your future login security so, please
provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to
security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.
Brian BlackWell, Manager of Security Departament