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Unionbank Fake Website?

It's coming to my attention that phishing or stealing confidential personal data online such as username/user id, password, pin and other sensitive information is increasing in numbers and it might be that many Filipinos fell victim.

In addition to that is everytime I visit the genuine or the real Unionbank of Philippines website: http://www.unionbankph.com, a user is reminded and warned regarding phishing attacks. I personally testify this kind of cyber crime.
When I opened my email today, and took a peek in the spam folder and read some email messages, it certainly got my attention the believed-to-be "Account  Message Alert" from Unionbank of the Philippines. Take a look at the snapshot photo of the Account Message Alert Subject from Unionbank of the Philippines:

Unionbank of the Philippines Account Message Alert

Do you see at the middle part? That's the believed-to-be "Account  Message Alert" from Unionbank of the Philippines. And then I opened the email and banggg... what I read are these few lines of message:

Unionbank of the Philippines Fake Email Message

Let me write this message again to make it clear for you to read:

Account Message Alert

FROM: Unionbank of the Philippines
    TO: ****my email address****

Dear User,
Your Unionbank online account security is inactive,
but first you have to confirm your registration.

Click here to confirm your registration!

Privacy Department
Unionbank of the Philippines

When I checked the email address, it's messages.alerts.10@unionbankph.com. This email address looks genuine right? But it's not. It's fake. Unionbank of the Philippines knows this. I hope they will post a message below in the comment concerning the genuineness of this email address.

Curious of the email message being read, I click the link: "Click here to confirm your registration!". Then I was redirected to a different website. Guess what? Do you know the website url where I was redirected?

It's http://philou38540.free.fr/forum/phep.htm.

I repeat, it's http://philou38540.free.fr/forum/phep.htm.

And I'm surprised when I saw the design and layout of the website, it's most likely similar with the real or genuine Unionbank of the Philippines website. I took a snapshot of the http://philou38540.free.fr/forum/phep.htm   website: Take a look below:

Unionbank Fake Website
Photo snapshot of the Unionbank Fake website which is http://philou38540.free.fr/forum/phep.htm

This url is not a real or genuine Unionbank of the Philippines website. It's a fake website. It seems that at a first glance, you can't believe that it's not a fake website because it looks very similar to the real Unionbank of the Philippines website. Take note! Do not believe this kind of website. It's a forged, cloned, copied, fake website. This fake website will ask you to enter your User ID, PIN no., Transaction Password which you should not do. If you accidentally enter your User ID, PIN no., and Transaction Password, this might be your greatest financial nightmare if you have huge amount of money in your Unionbank account.

This fake website or other kinds phishing websites are intentionally created by cyber criminals who want to steal your money through creating fake emails and fake websites. They are scammers.

So beware of this kind of websites.

You can read some of my useful articles on how to safeguard or protect yourself from this fraudulent act online:
To Unionbank of the Philippines IT and Web Management, please investigate the said fake website and the email address used by the culprit.
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"Unionbank Fake Website?" was written by Mary under the Banking category. It has been read 4282 times and generated 0 comments. The article was created on and updated on 27 July 2011.
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