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419 Fraud, Lottery Fraud, Phishing & Other Scams

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Phishing Scam E-mails

During the past year, I received many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails.  Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use "official" looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a website such as EBay, Paypal, America Online, banks, financial institutions.  They generally imply that your account will be suspended or deactivated unless you click the link to the webpage that is linked from the e-mail.  Sometimes they say that someone is trying to use your account or this is done for "security" purposes.  Once you are at the site, they will ask for personal information.  You may be asked 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 still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received.  However, if you are still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received.


Bank of America (3)

Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:57:07 -0600
To:
Subject: Security Update Alert
From: "Bank of America" <service@bankofamerica.com> 
 

Security Update Alert


Bank Of America is constantly working to increase security for all Online Banking users. To ensure the integrity of our online payment system, we periodically review accounts.

Your account might be place on restricted status. Restricted accounts continue to receive payments, but they are limited in their ability to send or withdraw funds.

To lift up this restriction, you have to complete our verification process. You must confirm your credit card details and your billing information as well. All restricted accounts have their billing information unconfirmed, meaning that you may no longer send money from your account until you have updated your billing information on records. To initiate the update confirmation process. Please follow the link below and fill in the necessary requirements :

https://www.bankofamerica.com/cgi-bin/imcpprd. dll/Ctrl.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

Sincerely,
Bank of America Customer Service

*Important*
Please update your records on or before 48 hours, a failure to update your records will result in a temporal hold on your funds.


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© 2006 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.

 


Amazon (1,2)

American Airlines Credit Union

Armed Forces Bank

Bank of America (1, 2, 3)

Barclays Bank (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Capital One

Chase Bank (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Colonial Bank

Co-op Network

Credit Union Nat'l Association

Desjardins

E-Bay (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

ePassaporte

Flagstar Bank

HSBC

Internal Revenue Service

Lloyds (1, 2)

PayPal (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

PC Financial

Visa

Wells Fargo Bank

World Savings


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