Checking my Lycos inbox, I was surprised to see two emails coming from different “banks” – Citibank and Capital One. Funny things is that both had almost the same email: alerts@capitolone.com and alerts@citibank.com. I immediately know these are phishing since I don’t have accounts for both accounts. Plus, the way the emails were presented, they were ugly and obviously shoddy attempts to look authentic.

The Citibank email looks like this:

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The link points to a rather long URL with ccTD .ru – most likely a Russian site. The said site is down at the moment. Who knows when it will be back online.

The Capitol One email looks like this:

The link points to another long URL, which is also down at the moment. And if you are using FireFox, the browser warns the user that the URL is probably a Web forgery. Here’s a screenshot:

As I have said before, cybercrime is the in-thing today, and cash is the name of the game. So be very careful in all of your online transactions.