Bank of America Customers be Aware of This Phishing Attack

There have been many phishing attacks happened in the past but this one seems to be a major one with fraudulent emails hitting email accounts and they all are being sent from numerous email addresses. The website address used in this attack are different ones and attempting to trick Bank Of America customers to click on the embedded URLs in the email and provide the remote website with your important banking information. You must delete these emails as soon as you see them in your mailbox if they surpass the email service provider’s spam engines. Below is a screen shot of the email that you might receive.

The URL that you will see in the email will take you to a remote server which will present you with a similar screen that you might see when you use online banking website of Bank of America. Don’t click on the URL for further investigation or to check where it will take you as the remote server could even try to exploit any security holes in your browser to steal your information without your knowledge.

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