Jul 17 2008
Beware : AOL Recticification Center Email

There’s an email going around to AOL users phishing for personal info. Pretending to be AOL. I am sure many are falling for this scam email. Do not click on the links!!!

This is the domain link to beware of https://aolinfoca.net

First email:

AOL Account Rectification Center

From: Administration@AOL
To:
Sent: 7/17/2008 4:46:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Problem with your account….

Dear Valued Customer,
This email is to notify you that your AOL account have generated errors on our servers. This problem with your account was discovered during weekly technical maintenance and you are hereby advised to follow our instructions for the successful rectification of this problem. This message requires urgent and immediate attention from you.

After reviewing your AOL account, we discovered that your account is no longer fully registered in our database due to unforeseen security reasons. Some of your information were found corrupted and encrypted to an unreadable format which could not be read by our systems and servers. For this reason, we could not verify your information on our file.
We urgently ask you to rectify this problem immediately, otherwise access to AOL services for your account will be locked until you pass verification process.

Note that at this moment, you have a few minutes to rectify the problem above. Once you have followed the given instructions, your account will continue as normal.

CLICK HERE TO RECTIFY THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY!
Thank You
America Online Services

Click and go here and a pop up comes up telling you to have your account info ready or your account could be cancelled.

Popup:
Welcome to AOL Verification Center!

We’ve worked hard to help make America
Online even better! However, we have to
ask that you verify your AOL identity so we
can update your billing information.
Please be advised this is manditory. If we
do not get your updated billing information, your
account will be voided and cancelled.

Before we start, please have the following:

– Your current Credit card(s).
– Any relevant infomation.

We are sorry for this inconvenience, but in the
long run, this will help keep your billing
infomation safe and secure.

Remember: Only authorized AOL Staff members
will use this information!

Landing Page text:

You are here: Home > AOL Account Rectification Center


AOL Account Rectification Center

Dear AOL Member

You were referred to this site for the following reason stated below. Please follow the instructions given to you so we at AOL can continue providing you with our services. Failure to do so will have your account terminated.

During one of our regular automatic verification procedures we encountered a technical problem caused by the fact that we could not verify the information that you provided during registration. This might be because of some little problem with our database.

We urgently ask you to submit your information so that we could fully verify your identify, otherwise an access to AOL services for your account will be deactivated until you pass verification process. We strongly require that you click here immediately to verify your account.

NOTE THAT FAILURE TO VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT NOW WILL LEAD TO ACCOUNT TERMINATION

CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE WITH THE VERIFICATION PROCESS

AOL Customer Support

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