Unbelieveable pshing email I got.

[FloridaPat]

Real site is "http://dan-mail.dk". Anyone know where 'dk' is? This person has a problem with English as a start.

"At the Bank of the West, we take protecting your financial information seriously. We recognize and respect your right to privacy when it comes to your personal financial information. Please attend to our request to our active consumers to protect them of online fraud and frequent rising scam attacks against our financial institution.

Actually, we are performing security improvements of our banking community and enforce customers to register their sensitive information for an additionally created free security service to prevent any fraudulent activity against their assets and savings. We, hereby ask you to respond within few hours of current notification and complete security application form via our SSL protected website to apply for this service absolutely for free, otherwise your account(s) may not process posted transactions correctly and on time.
Please visit us to apply : http://www.bankofthewest.c0m/ssl_chiper?affiliate

- in case you are not enrolled for Internet Banking use your Social Security Number both as User ID and Password."

[spatlese]

1. dk = denmark

AFAIK.. :)

[RobertSeattle]

2. c0m instead of COM? (Zero instead of an "O")

Goofy!

http://www.bankofthewest.com/ is a legitimate site.

[ET Awful]

3. An SSL protected website that begins with http instead of https?

Not bloody likely :)

[magellan]

4. Poor English is one way to identify these scams

Another way is that quite often the link looks legit but it points to a completely DIFFERENT place underneath.

You can discover this two ways. First, some email programs reveal true link addresses when you hover your cursor over them (mine has an activity bar at the bottom that does this). Second, you can right-click on the link, select copy, and then paste it somewhere to see if it matches the link in the email.

Basically, anything urging you to hand over your personal details by clicking on a link is going to be a phish.

[yodermon]

5. Domain Names of the World

http://www.brennerbooks.com/domainnames.html

yes, dk=Denmark