Email Fraud Alert received from: Julius
I recently received an email with this subject line: Add Webroot Protection on your account and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
FNBWebroot Antispyware, Virus and Malware Protection
Attention Customer:
We have had too many attacks on our banking system and clients profile in the past few weeks, due to this reason we have made it compulsary for WebRoot Protection to be added on the online profile all of FNB customers for better security and to prevent future damages to our security system.
We only need 2minutes of your time for the adding process to be completed and this process is free of charge.
Kindly Click Here to begin the adding process.
This is compulsary and failure to do this might lead to the disabling of your online profile for our own security.
Why do i need Webroot?
Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ helps to:
Blocks phishing and known malicious websites
Protects cookies and saved web site data
Detects and prevents man-in-the-middle attacks
Protects against key loggers
Protects sensitive clipboard data
Protects against URL grabbing attacks
Protects browser components from external attack
Protects against man-in-the-browser attacks
Isolates untrusted browser add-ons from data
Blocks browser process modification attempts
Blocks suspicious access to browser windows
The above email was sent by “FNB Security” from this email address: Luigi.Albertini@lloyditalico.net
I, Julius, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “FNB Security”:
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