Latest estatement is ready – Tesco Bank pretending to come from [email protected] <[email protected]>is one of the latest phish attempts to steal your Tesco bank Account and your other personal details.

Update 2 February 2015: an updated version of this is spreading today. which says Internet Saver Estatements – Tesco Bank pretending to come from TescoBank Plc <[email protected]>

This one only wants your personal details, Tesco log in details and your credit card and bank details. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your email, facebook and other social network log in details as well. If you are unwise enough to fill in the personal details and security questions, there is a very high likelihood that information could be used to compromise any other account or log in ANYWHERE on the net.

Most people use the same set of security questions and answers everywhere. I mean how many different answers can there be to: ” what was your first school” or ” where did you meet your wife/husband/girlfriend”

Please read our How to protect yourselves page for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware.

The original email looks like this It will NEVER be a genuine email from Tesco or any other company so don’t ever click the link in the email. If you do it will lead you to a website that looks at first glance like the genuine Tesco bank website but you can clearly see in the address bar, that it is fake. Some versions of this phish will ask you fill in the html ( webpage) form that comes attached to the email.

Certain restriction has been placed on your tesco bank online services

View your eDocument attached to proceed

Tesco Bank is a retail bank in the United Kingdom which was formed in 1997,

and which has been wholly owned by Tesco PLC since 2008

©Tesco Personal Finance plc 2014 / ©Tesco Personal Finance Compare Limited 2014.

or this

Dear Customer,

Your statement for Tesco Bank savings account is now available online.

To view your online statement

– View your estatement document attached

————————————————

Yours sincerely,

Tesco Bank estatement team

If you open the attached html form you see this message:

Your Latest Tesco Bank Saving Account Statement is ready.
Certain restriction has been placed on your tesco bank online service
You would be required to re – activate your online banking access to proceed
Activate Your Online Access

If you follow that link you see a webpage looking like:

 

Then you get a page asking for password and Security number

 

After you fill in your Security number and password you get a page looking like this, where the phishers try to validate your details to make sure that you are entering “genuine ” information. They make sure that the bank account numbers have the correct number of digits and that the credit card numbers have the correct number of digits and format.

Then they send you to this page and eventually it auto redirects you to the genuine Tesco bank site

All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email. Whether it is a message saying “look at this picture of me I took last night” and it appears to come from a friend or is more targeted at somebody who regularly is likely to receive PDF attachments or Word .doc attachments or any other common file that you use every day.

Or whether it is a straight forward attempt, like this one, to steal your personal, bank, credit card or email and social networking log in details. Be very careful when unzipping them and make sure you have “show known file extensions enabled“, And then look carefully at the unzipped file. If it says .EXE then it is a problem and should not be run or opened.