CIMB Phishing Scam

Early morning Tuesday, I received quite a peculiar email. Peculiar because I was never a client of the organization that send the email to me. Nevertheless, I was curious about what it’s all about. And that’s when I read this….

This is the first time I received a phishing email from a local entity in the form of CIMB’s email. Normally, it’s some dubious email from some African bank and all.

In this email, it first asked me to verify my contact details by logging on to https://www.cimbclicks.com.my/wps/portal/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9QJ_89Mw8_YJ0RUUAk9OZqw!!/
. After which, it asked me to log into their secured server which is actually http://host217-36-124-106.in-addr.btopenworld.com/Login/index.html

Now, if you have received this similar email and you so happen to be a CIMB account holder. Please do not respond to it. If you are worried about your account, please just go to the bank and check with the staff there or just log into the CIMB account the usual way you normally do.

If you have not heard of this term before, here’s a definition of the word Phishing.

phishing
(fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information.

Well, hopefully this will help to serve as an alert to all users out there. Have a safe day.

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