The "Capital One Account Temporary Suspended" Phishing Scam
From: "Capital One" <sara.stone@raveis.com>
Date: October 6, 2017 at 2:48:22 PM EDT
Subject: Capital One Secure Message
Reply-To: noreply@onlinecapitalone.com
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Account temporary suspended
Dear Capital One Customer,
Your Capital One Internet Banking account has been temporary suspended.
We require you to Unlock your account Unlock Access.
Sincerely,
Capital One Security Department
www.capitalone.com
Capital One customers who have received messages claiming that they need to do some activity on their accounts, such always go directly to https://www.capitalone.com/ and sign into their accounts. Once they have signed in, they will be notified of security updates, notifications and other important notifications, if there are any. So, there is no need to click on a link in an email message, which may go to phishing or malicious website.
Also, Capital One customers who have already been tricked by the phishing messages, are asked to change their passwords and contact Capital One immediately, before their accounts are hijacked and used fraudulently by cybercriminals.