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Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from AlertPay and instructing you to update your account information to maintain account access is a phishing scam. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use official looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a corporate website that you have an account with. Once you are at the site, they will ask you to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information. If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information. However, if you are not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact AlertPay directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact AlertPay immediately and depending on what information you gave out, it may be wise to take measures to protect against identity theft (e.g. contact credit agencies, close accounts, cleanse computer). Many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails are set forth throughout this website and below:

AlertPay

From:	"AlertPay" <noreplay@alertpay.com>
Subject:	AlertPay: Update Your Informations
Date:	Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:22:27 -0600

** ALERTPAY: Update Your Informations **

Dear AlertPay Member,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verfication procedures, we were unable to verify your account information.

This might be due to either one of the following reasons:

1) A change in your personal information

2) Submitting invalid information during the initial enrollment process.

3) An inability to accurately verify your account information due to an internal error within our processors.

We demand that you take 5 minutes out of your online experience and renew your records to avoid running into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to Verify your records will result in your accout suspension.