NCUA Phishing Scam

The email claiming to be from NCUA or the National Credit Union Administration and instructing you to restore your account 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 NCUA directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact NCUA 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:









Dear Client , NCUA is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information to help us provide you with secure service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience. - Why is my account access limited? - Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s): - * May 12, 2006: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive Washington Mutual account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection. (Your case ID for this reason is THEFT-3150019066.) How can I restore my account access? This limitation cannot be appealed. - We encourage you to restore full access as soon as possible. http://www.ncua.gov/update.php Once you complete all of the checklist items, your case will be reviewed by one of our Account Specialists. We will send you an email with the outcome of the review. Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account Best regards, - National Credit Union Administration Team.

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From:	"National Credit Union Administration Online Account #440" <Support@ncua.gov>
To:
Subject:	Confirm your Online National Credit Union Administration account #760
Date:	Fri, 19 May 2006 18:24:41 -0400

NCUA - National Credit Union Administration

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