They shut down their whole Internet banking site because of a phishing email ! I would have thought that was somewhat of an over reaction. That would sure annoy me if I happened to be one of their customers. Simon Lyall wrote:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Steven Heath wrote:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10359020
Another internet banking scam is doing the rounds.
This time Kiwibank customers are the target. Emails pretending to be from the bank were sent out early this morning. They contain a link to a site which looks official.
I note that the IPs ( 4 A records listed for www.thedomain.com [1] ) has changed at least twice this afternoon and appear to be hosted with Zombied machines. People who say we should just block the IPs please take note.
Actually I just noticed that "www.kiwibank.com" is owned by somebody who is currently forwarding it to the real kiwibank site.
Kiwibank have a note up:
http://www.kiwibank.co.nz/news/security_notice.asp
[1] - Domain not mentioned since some after filtering it.