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Australians hit by online bank fraud

Posted by deepquest on March 18, 2003 – 7:11 pm

Last Updated on March 18, 2003 by deepquest

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed that some customers have been tricked into revealing their online banking client numbers and passwords after receiving a spam mail claiming to be from the bank

The message has the subject “Netbank Security Server Update” and asks recipients to reactivate their Netbank accounts. The HTML message grabs a genuine Commonwealth Bank graphic, but the hyperlink that purports to take the reader to the NetBank site actually points to a server identified only by an IP address.

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