St. George Bank Clients Alerted about Fraudulent E-mails

Australia situated St. George Bank is cautioning customers about one e-mail scam, which's hitting the inboxes of its accountholders, published heraldsun.com.au dated March 29, 2012.

Addressing recipients as customers, the fake electronic mail tells they can now see a new statement prepared specially for the accountholders. Accordingly, they should log in while providing own banking particulars (into one different site).

Also, the sender's id in the hoax message is given as onlinebanking@stgeorge.com.au.

Explaining the new scam e-mail that's going wild amidst Internauts, a St. George Spokeswoman stated that the bank was able to spot the phishing website and e-mail early on 28th March 2012, while the Australian Federal Police had been informed about the scam. Heraldsun.com.au published this.

The Spokeswoman further stated that the bank's security team was on the job of eliminating the criminal website in unison with each and every appropriate authority.

She indicated that scammers usually bought/amassed lists of e-mail ids, followed with sending bulk e-mails containing their malicious web-link as they anticipated of getting to potential victims.

But, researchers elaborate that the electronic mail isn't surely from St. George Bank, while the so-called "new statement" used as a lure is simply the craftsmanship of the scammers towards deceiving unwitting recipients into surrendering personal information to online-crooks. People who become convinced of the trick followed with completing their particulars asked through the fraudulent, phishing site are sure to be dispatching them all to the fraudsters. And soon as these victims' data is garnered, the fraudsters will proceed towards committing ID-theft and card fraud.

Moreover, making a declaration online, St. George Bank stated that it wouldn't ever dispatch e-mails to clients requesting them for feeding in own details; diverting them onto online system of banking; alternatively directing them for contacting on a given phone-number as well as disclosing account along with other private details.

Hence, anybody getting any of the above phishing e-mails is advised against viewing or replying it.

Meanwhile, in a similar scam targeting St. George, during May 2008, phishers distributed spoofed electronic mails telling the Bank uninterruptedly strived towards enhancing its clients' account security, but then directed clients about entering personal account information.

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