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Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from ePassporte and instructing you to verify your identity 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 ePassporte directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact ePassporte 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 email solicitations that appear to be phishing emails are set forth throughout this website and below:

ePassporte

From:	"ePassporte" <service@epassporte.com>
Subject:	ePassporte Notification!
Date:	Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:35:52 -0800

Dear valued ePassporte member:

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your ePassporte account from a foreign IP address.

If you recently accessed your account while traveling in Rusia, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you did not initiate the logins, please visit ePassporte as soon as possible to verify your identity:

https://www.epassporte.com/secure/epassporte.cgi?req=statement

Verify your identity is a security measure that will ensure that you are the only person with access to the account.

Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account security.

Sincerely.
ePassporte

This is an automatic e-mail and has been sent to all users, therefore do NOT reply it. Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, ePassporte will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.