Beware of the Citibank Phishing Scam

by Frank Jovine on 07/26/2010 in Scams & Hoaxes, Security

There’s an email purporting to be from Citibank, claims that due to multiple failed login attempts, the account holder must confirm account information or the account will be suspended indefinitely.

This is a phishing website that’s hosted on a local machine with the IP address of 75.63.112.254. The scammers have created a website that looks just like the legitimate Citibank website to fool customers in providing personal information. All information entered into the fake website can be harvested by scammers and used for credit card fraud and identity theft.

This email is not from Citibank or any financial entities related to Citibank.

Phishing Website

Citibank Phishing Scam

Example Email

Subject: Failed Login Attempts
From: Citibank Citibank.message@emailmessage.citibank.com
To:

Failed Login Attempts

For your security, Citibank constantly monitors login attempts made to your account. Due to the increased numbers of failed logins, we require you to confirm that you still have access to your account and that you are the only one using it. In order to safeguard your Citibank account, please take action as soon as possible, by following the link below and completing the security steps:

https://online.citibank.com/US/JPS/portal/Index.do

ABOUT THIS MESSAGE

Please do not reply to this Marketing e-mail from Citibank retail banking. For account specific inquiries, kindly call
1-800-397-7400 or visit the link in the email. You can also direct any inquiries to:

© 2010 Citibank. Citibank, N.A., Member FDIC. Citi, Citibank and Citibank with Arc Design are registered service marks of Citigroup Inc.

Citibank will not send its customers unsolicited emails asking them to provide personal and financial details.

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5 Responses to “Beware of the Citibank Phishing Scam”

  1. Brad

    Jul 26th, 2010

    American express, HSBC, paypal are the most common phishing scams.

    If you see a phishing page report it, and submit it to http://phishtank.com. That way kaspersky and others can use the phishing data.

    Website is down :) .

    • Frank Jovine

      Jul 26th, 2010

      Brad,

      You can add Paypal in that mix as well. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Andrew @ Blogging Guide

    Jul 27th, 2010

    Thanks for the information Brad.

  3. Little Pebbles Academy

    Jul 30th, 2010

    Little Pebbles Academy
    Thank you for some very good information we were unaware of. I would think in a world that has come thus far would have better means to handle these types of bandits.

  4. Tony @ Android

    Aug 3rd, 2010

    It’s way people using to scam your information. Just make sure you are using SSL method and take care about the URL address.