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German American Bank

Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from German American Bank notifying you that your account has been suspended and instructing you to update your account to reactivate it 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 German American Bank directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact German American Bank 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:

German American Bank

From:	"German American Bank" <do-not-reply@germanamericanbank.com>
Subject:	Suspended Account !
Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:11:34 -0400

Dear Customer,

YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED !!!

After the energy breakdown from 03/25/2007 it appears that some of our
hardware is not working properly. The data of five thousands customers
stored on computer backup tapes was lost.
Can we regain what was once lost? - YES

German American Bank temporarily suspended your account.
Some restrictions applied until you update your account .

Once you have completed these steps, we will send you an email notifying
that your account is available again. After that you can upgrade or downgrade
your account at any time.
The information provided will be treated in confidence and stored in our secure database.
If you fail to provide information about your account you'll discover that your account
has been automatically deleted from German American Bank database.