[Chambana-info] <em>Contact</em> submission

Fri Jan 30 23:00:00 CST 2009

Name : Fraudulent site - please shut down! [Alliance Leicester 2488.01]

E-mail : afcc at rsa.com

Comment : 

Dear Sirs:

RSA, an anti-fraud and security company, is under contract to assist Alliance Leicester bank and its related entities in preventing or terminating online activity that targets Alliance Leicester’s Bank clients as potential fraud victims.  RSA has been made aware that you appear to be providing Internet Services to a fraudulent Web site, which is part of a “phishing scam”*. This activity violates Alliance Leicester’s Bank copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights and may violate the criminal laws of the United States and other nations. 

E-mail messages have been broadly distributed to individuals by a person or entity pretending to be Alliance Leicester bank. These e-mails use Alliance Leicester’s Bank name and identity (including trademarks) without authorization.  The e-mails request recipients to verify and submit sensitive details related to their Alliance Leicester bank accounts. Within the fraudulent e-mail message, there is a link that leads the recipients to a fraudulent website displaying Alliance Leicester’s Bank copyrighted materials and trademarks.  The fraudulent website is located at the following URL address http://archive.ucimc.org/usermedia/application/7/newalliance.html ) to which you provide services and which is under your control. 

The fraudulent website not only represents a misuse of Alliance Leicester’s Bank intellectual property; its purpose is to improperly obtain personal information of Alliance Leicester bank customers in order to fraudulently access their bank accounts.  The owners of those websites typically perpetrate identity-theft related activities, such as using customer’s credit cards or bank accounts without authorization.  In addition, since the vast majority of all of the e-mails are not being sent to actual Alliance Leicester bank customers, the actions may serve to damage the reputation and image of Alliance Leicester bank.

Please take all necessary steps to immediately shut down the fraudulent website, terminate its availability to the Internet and discontinue the transmission of any e-mails associated with this website.

We understand that you may not be aware of this improper use of your services and we appreciate your cooperation. We specifically would ask that you also take the following actions:
Please provide us with a tar/zip file of the source code for this site, so that we may analyze it to help prevent further attacks.
If any customer data has been captured that is stored on your systems or equipment, please send us that data so that the customers to whom that data relates can be notified and take steps to protect their credit. 
Please provide a copy of any records you maintain that indicate the name, contact information, method of payment or similar information that may be useful in helping learn about the identity and location of the customer for whom the website has been operated.   

Thank you for your cooperation to prevent and terminate this fraudulent activity.
Sincerely,

RSA Anti Fraud Command Center
Tel: +44(0)800-032-7751 (UK)
Tel: +1-866-408-7525 (US)
Fax: +972-9-9566658 (EU)
Fax: +1-212-208-4644 (US)
E-mail:  afcc at rsasecurity.com
http://www.rsa.com 
For more information about RSA's AFCC http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3348 

Group Legal
Alliance and Leicester plc
Customer Service Centre
Carlton Park
Narborough
LE19 0AL
Tel: +441162011000

*”Phishing" is an e-mail scam that attempts to trick consumers into revealing personal information, such as their credit or debit account numbers, checking account information, Social Security Numbers, or banking account passwords, through an imposter’s Web site or in a reply e-mail.
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