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419 Fraud, Lottery Fraud, Phishing & Other Scams |
Exposing Internet Fraud & Scams |
The email claiming to be from Farmers & Merchants Bank of Central California and offering you cash for participating in a survey. 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 Farmers & Merchants Bank of Central California directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact Farmers & Merchants Bank of Central California 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:
> Dear Customer,
>
A
randomly selected sample of 5,000 of our members in Sacramento,
Modesto,
Hilmar, Turlock, Linden, Stockton,
Elk Grove and Lodi has been recently selected to take part in F&M
Bank’s ‘Membership Satisfaction Survey’.
In
return we will credit $80.00
to your account - Just for your time!
>
This
is your chance to tell us what you think of us and what we do for your
account information to be keep private,
so if you are selected please take this opportunity and let us know!
As with all the F&M Bank survey departments, all the information
provided is treated confidentially.
> It will be stored in our secure database for maximum 7 days while we process the results of this urgent survey.
If you have any questions regarding this survey please feel free to contact us.
>
To
continue please click the link below
http://www.fmbonline.com/html/membership_survey.html
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