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.

EBay (4)

Dear eBay Customer, Today Ianuary 08, 2005 we have dected a bougus activity in your account, so we suspend your account to protect you and us in same time from any fraud that can be made using your account. After you read this email pls login in to your account with your USERNAME and PASSWORD and confirm all dates from the FORM If you don`t login after 12 hours from when you got this email or you don`t complete the form with correct info your account will be deleted ! And next time pls be more careful with your USERNAME and PASSWORD. Your eBay Team ! To Sign In, please click the link below: http://signin.ebay.com/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&ssPageName=h:h:sin:US&ru=http%3A//www.ebay.com

Amazon (1,2)

American Airlines Credit Union

American National Bank of Texas

Armed Forces Bank

Bank of America (1, 2, 3)

Barclays Bank (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Capital One

Chase Bank (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Citibank

Colonial Bank

Co-op Network

Corporate America Family Credit Union

Credit Union Nat'l Association (1,2)

Desjardins

E-Bay (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

ePassaporte

First National Bank of PA

Flagstar Bank

Halifax Online Banking

HSBC (1,2)

Internal Revenue Service

Lloyds (1, 2)

MidAmerica Bank

National Credit Union Administration

Ohio Savings Bank

PayPal (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

PC Financial

St. Francis Bank

Visa (1,2)

Washington Mutual

Wells Fargo Bank

World Savings

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