Today I received an email from Arizona State Credit Union. It appears my account had been locked thanks to some pesky hackers from Europe. Wait a minute … I don’t even have an account with AZSTCU!
I get these phishing scams in my email every day. Phishers try to get your account data: username/password, Social Security number, birthday, account number and so on. They usually present you with a form to fill out that looks like it is from a trusted entity, in this case your bank. When they get this information they can either act on it, or sell it on the information black market. In this case the information targeted is your AZSTCU username and password.
This one is interesting because it is geographically targeted. The attacker is looking for customers of an Arizona Credit Union instead of a national or worldwide organization. He/she could have linked my web page to Arizona and harvested my email there. Here is the text of the email:
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