Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank, 2008

[Jessica]

Bizarre. Email from Venezuela for a bank in the UK asking you to call an 800 number in the US. and a member of the FDIC!

From Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank
Return-Path: <message.buisiness@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Received: from 190.200.10.105, Venezuela, Caracas, cantv.net
From: "Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank" <message.buisiness@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Subject: Customer database regular maintenance.
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007


Dear Alliance & Leicester Business Banking customer,

We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures for online banking and customer databases.

We apologize for the inconvenience but your account was randomly selected for verification and you'll be taken through a short authentication process.

To start now please click here.

Please note! If we don't recieve the appropriate account verification within 24 hours since you've got this email your online access can be suspended until further notice. The purpose of this verification is to ensure your account has not been fraudulently used and you're not a victim of identity theft.

Thank you for understanding and helping us improve.

Equal Housing LenderMember FDIC© Copyright 2007 Alliance & Leicester Corporation1-800-REGIONS

[Kat]

I got one too.

From <service@mybusinesbank.co.uk>
X-Originating-IP: [72.1.17.18], UK, Intrahost Ltd.
Return-Path: <service@mybusinesbank.co.uk>
Subject: Security measures for online banking
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007

Dear Alliance & Leicester Business Banking customer,

We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures for online banking and customer databases. We apologize for the inconvenience but your account was randomly selected for verification and you'll be taken through a short authentication process.

To start now please click here.

Please note! If we don't recieve the appropriate account verification within 24 hours since you've got this email your online access can be suspended until further notice. The purpose of this verification is to ensure your account has not been fraudulently used and you're not a victim of identity theft.

Thank you for understanding and helping us improve.
Equal Housing LenderMember FDIC&#169; Copyright 2007 Alliance & Leicester Corporation1-800-REGIONS


and even funnier was this one:

From Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank
Return-Path: <message.buisiness@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Received: from User ([81.149.251.45] UK, BTOpenworld
From: "Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank" <message.buisiness@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Subject: You have new message. <---------------superb grammar!
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007

Dear Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank user,
You have 1 new ALERT message
Please login to your Alliance & Leicester Business Banking and visit the Message Center section in order to read the message.

To Login, please click the link below:

Go To Alliance & Leicester Business Banking Online

&#169; 2007 Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank. All rights reserved

[Gentle Giant]

This is humorous, if not a bit bizarre. Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank is a bank in the UK. Jessica's post says that the bank is a "Member FDIC". The FDIC is is a United States government corporation designed to protect individual bank deposits of customer in the United States, not the UK. The FDIC provides deposit insurance which currently guarantees checking and savings deposits in member banks up to $100,000 per depositor.

I'm sure that UK bank would like to be insured by the American taxpayer but it doesn't work that way. This is just another stupid scammer sending out emails in which he copies and pastes something he finds in a webpage which which he has absolutely no clue whatsoever as to what it means.

[The Doctor]

I'm sure that UK bank would like to be insured by the American taxpayer

Maybe the Americas would like to help us with Northern Rock?

[Kat]

Not a chance doc!

[Jinnosuke]

Return-Path: ~admin@mybusinessbank.co.uk>
Received: from 80.91.89.46, Spain, Huelva, neo-hosting.com
Reply-To: ~admin@mybusinessbank.co.uk>
From: "Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank"~admin@mybusinessbank.co.uk>
Subject: You have 1 new Message
Date: Wed, 16 Apr


Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank
16 April 2008,

You have 1 new Message.
CHECK MESSAGE

Check out the latest updates about your e-banking service and take a look at these great offers from Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank.

Customer Service
Please do not reply to this message.To contact us by phone, please call the number on the home page.

Sincerely,
Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank Internet Banking.

[Garreg Ddu]

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Origin IP Address = 84.27.1.163 = AtHome Benelux IP Management, Gyroscoopweg 90-92, 1042 AX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

From: "Alliance Leicester Bank"~internetbanking@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Subject: One Security Message
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:53:21 -0800
Bcc:
Return-Path: internetbanking@alliance-leicester.co.uk



You have 1 new Security Message Alert!

Log In into your account and resolve the problem.


Click here to Log In "Phishing" link dead - found by hosts after posting in NetCraft and McAfee SiteAdvisor.



Alliance & Leicester Online Service



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alliance & Leicester Security Department

[Jessica]

From Alliance & Liecester Plc
Return-Path: <secure.message@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Received: from 212.241.221.141, U.K., Virtual Hosting VPS, abuse report to [abuse@gxn.net]
Reply-To: "Alliance & Liecester Plc" <secure.message@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
From: "Alliance & Liecester Plc" <secure.message@alliance-leicester.co.uk>
Subject: Secure Message from Alliance & Liecester
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008
Organization: Alliance & Liecester Plc


Dear Valued Customer,

You have a new message waiting in your Inbox Folder.

Click here to read.

Best Regards.
Alliance & Leicester Security Department Team.

* Please do not reply to this email as your reply will not be received.
Alliance & Leicester is part of the Santander Group, one of the world's largest banking groups. More information on Banco Santander can be found at www.santander.com


http mybank aliance-leicester co uk.stgsfw7sr.com/index.php is flagged by macafee as a phishing site.

[Gentle Giant]

From the mailbag.

From: Alliance & Leicester Bank Plc
Date: 03/12/2008
Subject: Alliance&Leicester Internet Banking Security Upgrade Notification


Dear Valued Customer

We noticed severe numbers of invalid login attempt on your account, due to this reason your customer ID has been revoked.

We have also increased more security on our website so as to put an end to fraudulent activities. In other to use our services, you are advise to re-access your account.

To re-access your account,
http alliance-leicester co uk/customer/index.aspx [This site is dead.]

It's all about your Security.

Management
Alliance & Leicester Bank Plc.

[KimZ]

Hi all

I received this email today, it reads as follows:

Alliance & Leicester Business Banking Customer,

Statement Information

Download Balances: http://https www mybusinessbank co u...detail?index=0

1108 Current Account -01*******

Statement Number: 22

Opening Balance:****

Closing Balance:****

Download to: http://https www mybusinessbank co u.../user/download

And the headers look like this:

Return-Path: <alc.bank@mybusinessbank.co.uk>
Delivery-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 0409 +0100
Received: from caracas (static-ip-62-75-164-111.inaddr.intergenia.de [62.75.164.111])
by mx.kundenserver.de (node=mxeu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis)
id 0MKpIi-1LAcDf0tsb-000F5b for info@xxxxl.co.uk; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 0409 +0100
Received: (qmail 3573 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2008 02:38:03 +0100
Received: from 62-77-173-51.customer.eircom.net (HELO User) (62.77.173.51)
by static-ip-62-75-164-111.inaddr.intergenia.de with SMTP; 11 Dec 2008 02:38:03 +0100
From: "Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank"<ALC.bank@mybusinessbank.co.uk>
Subject: Statement Information.
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:36:29 -0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <0MKpIi-1LAcDf0tsb-000F5b@mx.kundenserver.de>
Envelope-To: info@xxxxx

Regards and stay safe