Strange that about 90% of all the scam banking emails I capture are hitting Absa.
Most of them are obvious as hell with the usual mispellings, attrocious grammar and originating from a gmail addy. Apart from the spelling and grammar being passable, I thought this one deserved a special mention primarily because the address it came from was drew.barry@absa.co.za. This means, somewhat worryingly, that it originated from the genuine Absa domain which means either it's an inside job or they have security holes in their systems you could drive a truck through.Either way the originating email address might make it plausible enough for some of their less net-savvy customers to get nailed.
The 'click here' hyperlink is http://iaido.co.kr/data/data/doc/html/main.php(211.247.239.15)Dear Valued Customer,
Access to your online banking account has been suspended.
This is due to many failed Login Attempts from unrecognized IP.
To re-gain access, you have to confirm your online banking details.
To Continue, Please follow the link below providing the
required information's correctly.
Click here to gain Access
Customer Service Security Team, Thank you for your co-operation.
Absa Bank ©2012
I'm going to strongly recommend you don't follow the URL (which leads to a Korean web site), unless you know what you're doing and take the usual precautions.
Edit, sorry about the codeboxes,not sure how to prevent the board parsing links.
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