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ZEROSPAM's team detects a phishing attempt at the RBC Royal Bank

29 September 2005

Early one morning, the ZEROSPAM team detected and identified a phishing attempt targeting Royal Bank customers. Originating from a U.S. server, the email asked victims to enter their personal information on a fake Web site and then sent them to the real Royal Bank Web site. In all likelihood, the U.S. Web server that hosted the fake Web site was also hijacked. ZEROSPAM was able to determine that the phishing campaign was sent to at least 22,000 Canadian addresses.

ZEROSPAM's team immediately advised the bank's security team and the provider of the hijacked site, who took immediate action and deactivated the site following our request.

Phishing has become a major threat to Internet users and the ZEROSPAM filtering solution provides effective protection against this dangerous form of spam.