"Capital One 360 Mobile and Online Services Suspended Due to Error" Phishing Email Scam

The "Capital One 360 Mobile and Online Services Suspended Due to Error" Phishing Scam

From: "Capital One 360" <iabuse@rcn.com>

Date: December 5, 2017 at 7:56:10 PM PST

Subject: SECURITY ALERT :

Dear Valued Customers,

Access to mobile and online services has been suspended due to error(s) in your security details. Follow the reference below to unlock your access hxxp://httoslisecure.caoitalone360.com /mvaccount/banking/login.vm As always, you can sign in to your account to verify that your account information is accurate. Thanks for choosing Capital One®. Important Information from Capital One Contact us To ensure delivery, add capitalone@notification.capitalone.com to your address book.

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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. 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 cyber criminals.

Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers or other information in samples on this website may have been impersonated or spoofed.