Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing

[Andreas Östling <andreaso () it su se>]

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:03, Florian Weimer wrote:
> | As the scam was uncovered, Nordea Sweden shut down their whole
> | internet bank. Apparently this was done in order to prevent the
> | scammers from using the codes to move money around.
>
> Uhm, this is just so wrong.  Maybe they weren't prepared, but this
> drastic measure puts more customers at risk because if their regular
> banking site fails, they will turn to backup sites that are announced
> in those helpful email messages.  Or something like that.

Something worth mentioning regarding this scam is that the fishing mails 
were written in the worst swedish I've ever seen, you could barely 
understand what they ment. Previous viruses/scams in swedish that I've 
seen were also kind of poorly written but this one actually looked like 
it was automatically translated from some other language by a very bad 
software. Some of the words are not even real words.

/Andreas
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