HSBC Bank - phishing scam

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:45:30 -0700

This is a rather poor attempt at phishing. The email contains grammatical and spelling errors, as well as a suspicious link to another website.
Subject: Security of individual customer information.
From: HSBC Bank <office@hsbcbanking.com>

Attention to all HSBC Bank Customers!

Some standard bank customers have reported experiencing disconnect or write error issue with online banking. To address this HSBC Bank has realeased a 128-bit SSL update for the online banking page that eliminates this bug.

You can update your browser from our Customer Service Department>>>
<https://219-106-249-130.cust.bit-drive.ne.jp/secures/>

HSBC Bank, strongly recommends that all customers upgrade their bowsers to this new update, regardless of whther or not they experienced this bug.

Previous notifications have been sent. Thank you for banking with HSBC.