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Community Choice Credit Union

Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from Community Choice Credit Union and instructing you to authenticate account information to maintain account access appears to be 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 Community Choice Credit Union directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact Arizona Association of Realtors 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:

Community Choice Credit Union

From: "CommunityChoice" <CommunityChoice@> Subject: Failure to authenticate your account Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:53:25 +0200

NOTICE

Dear Member, Due to the recent phishing attacks targeting Community Choice Credit Union we are currently launching a new security system called Multi-Factor Authentication.In order to update your account and benefit from new facilities, click HomeBanking To enhance the security when accessing your on-line accounts, Community Choice Credit Union has implemented an additional layer to our on-line security system. You may be requested to answer security questions in order to complete your log in to the internet banking system. Failure to authenticate your account may result in account malfunction, slow online experience or even exposure of sensible data. Please do not reply to this message. For any inquiries, contact Member Service. Copyright © 2007 Community Choice Credit Union. All rights reserved.