Re: Citizen bank (new?) $5 phishing passed spamcop (all RBL on)

Glenn Daniels wrote:
> "Ilgaz" wrote in message
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Pasting below, Eudora pro alerts me fine about Phishing, have no clue
>>about that bank but maybe popular there in USA, so crossposting to
>>spamcop.mail.
>>
>>I better warn: WARNING, MAIL PASTED BELOW IS A PHISHING ATTEMPT, NOT A
>>REAL BANK MAIL!
>>
>>Have a nice day
>>
>>Ilgaz
>>
> 
> 
> --- snippage ---
> 
> Ilgaz:
> 
> Actually, there was a phish out last year that actually did
> point to domain citlzensbank.com. That site has long since
> been taken down.
> 
> What is now there is an advert for a domain name
> registrar service.
> 
> This is not a Phish site:
> href="http://www.citlzensbank.com/Survey/Secure/index.asp">http://www.citize
> nsbankonline.com/logon/securesurvey.asp</a></p></td>
> 
> but the spam is a spoof of a Phish, which lends credibility
> to the belief some have that spammers really do eat their
> offspring.
> 


This was a working phish site yesterday. Godaddy has supposedly nuked 
the site according to someone on another list, but I'm not totally 
certain of this yet.


> I am thinking that someone at citizensbank.com might be
> interested to know that their graphics have been abused
> in a spamitem. The spamsender may or may not have had
> permission to link to their graphics in criminal spamitems
> being transmitted on the internet. The domain registering
> service may or may not have a "pink contract" with the
> spamsender, and may or may not have acquired
> permissions from citizensbank.com to use their trademark
> logos in a criminal spamitem.
> 
> Is it OK by you to report your spamitem to the abuse desk
> for citizensbank.com and let their people address these
> issues with the owner of the allegedly spamvending website?
> 
> Glenn
> 
>