Phishing JNBS Live Email - "An Update to Your Account is Required"

Once the victims have entered their account credentials on the phishing website, it will be sent to the scammers behind the phishing scam. The scammers will then use their victims’ credentials to gain access to their accounts and use the accounts fraudulently.

The Phishing JNBS Live Email Message

From: JNBS [mailto:info@ticino.com]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 2:52 PM
Subject: An update to your account is required

02 October 2015

Dear Customer,

You are receiving this notice as a reminder to confirm your email Address for your Online Banking.

This email was sent automatically to your email address as an additional layer of security regarding your Online activity as part of Security Assurance.

Please Click here to update your contact email Address or call 2441.296.6962. for more information .

Thank you for choosing LIVE by JN as your Online Banking provider.

JNBS customers who have received the email message above are asked to delete it and not to follow the instructions in it. And, for those who have been tricked by the phishing email message into visiting the phishing website, and have attempted to sign into it, should change their passwords and contact JNBS immediately.

The legitimate JNBS Live website is located: www.jnbslive.com. JNBS contact information is located on their website.

To help protect against phishing scams, internet users should never click on a link in an email message to sign into their online accounts. They should instead, go directly to their online accounts providers’ websites by searching for them in a popular search engine or typing the websites’ name or address directly in their web browsers. This will ensure that internet users are not taken to fraudulent websites disguised as legitimate ones.

For example:

JNBS customers should go directly to www.jnbslive.com or search for “JNBN Live” using a popular search engine.