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Persistent Tax Refund Scam

By Rodel Mendrez  •  October 21st, 2010  •   Spam

A month ago, the New Zealand Department of Inland Revenue (IRD) issued a warning advising people not to respond to scam emails claiming to offer tax refunds. We have observed these types of scams before, but the individual campaigns come and go. Like any other phishing scam, this email campaign appears to look like a legitimate notification from Inland Revenue complete with the logo.

IRD Tax refund scam email

The link in the message body points to a phony web page that mimics the New Zealand IRD website. But the odd thing is the instruction in a red font stating “Please click on your following bank logo to continue the refund procedure”.

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Phishing New Zealand from Nigeria

By Gavin Neale  •  August 3rd, 2010  •   Spam

We’ve recently observed phishing emails targeting customers of the ASB bank, which is based in New Zealand. While these particular phishing emails are not very different from many of the other phishing emails we get every day, we did find some interesting things on the server hosting the phishing website and inside the email’s header, which hint that a group based in Nigeria could be behind these phishing attacks. Here is a sample message:

The link in the email goes to a phishing page that is hosted on a compromised web server in Hungary. It looks a lot like the legitimate banking login page for the asbbank.co.nz website.

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