Soon after receiving the phishing email from HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad, I received another one early this morning. The subject of the email this time is: Protect Your Internet Banking. The email that it came from this time is: onlineprotectionid12@hsbc.com.my
Although one may be fooled with regards to the authenticity of these emails because they both came from @hsbc.com.my domain, I think that it could be easily done to mask the REAL domain that it came from. I may not know exactly how it is done but I know it could be done.
Also, I was told to start protecting my HSBC internet banking from this link: http://www.hsbc.com.my/online/rbcguarantee.html. However, hovering my cursor over it, I was shown another entirely different URL. Needless to say, it is NOT the URL of HSBC Malaysia or any other HSBC domain. In fact, it is a Brazilian site.
If you did receive such an email, do take extra care. I have to say that it's rather alarming to receive two phishing attempts back to back even though I have been an HSBC customer for a long time and have never received phishing mails from "HSBC" prior to this.
Although one may be fooled with regards to the authenticity of these emails because they both came from @hsbc.com.my domain, I think that it could be easily done to mask the REAL domain that it came from. I may not know exactly how it is done but I know it could be done.
Also, I was told to start protecting my HSBC internet banking from this link: http://www.hsbc.com.my/online/rbcguarantee.html. However, hovering my cursor over it, I was shown another entirely different URL. Needless to say, it is NOT the URL of HSBC Malaysia or any other HSBC domain. In fact, it is a Brazilian site.
If you did receive such an email, do take extra care. I have to say that it's rather alarming to receive two phishing attempts back to back even though I have been an HSBC customer for a long time and have never received phishing mails from "HSBC" prior to this.
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