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Written by Stan Beer   
Tuesday, 02 May 2006
A new bank phishing scam is on the loose with the scammer using a genuine registered top order domain name to entice people to believe that it is a real bank.

Using the domain, www.commonwealth-security.com, sophisticated scammers are using the well worn method of  trying to get people to visit their site under the guise of being from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and asking people to update their details. The level of sophistication of this phishing attempt, however, is such that the scammers are using a top level registered domain name. The scam site can be traced back to www.comcast.net, which is probably the unwitting host.{moscomment}


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