Providian Bank

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

Washington Mutual and Providian Bank

Dear Washington Mutual Client,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error
in your billing information on file with Providian Bank.
This might be due to either following reasons :

A recent change in your personal information (I.E. change of address)
Submitting invalid information during initial signup process
An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due of an internal error within our processors

In accordance with Washington Mutual User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited untill this issue has been resolved. In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access we may require some specific information from you for the following reason :

We encourage you to restore full access as soon as possible
https://online.wamu.com/IdentityManagement/Logon.aspx

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

Please do not respond to this e-mail adress as your reply will not be recived
Best regards,
Providian Bank Is Now Washington Mutual.

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:27:34 +0900
From:	providian@wamu.com
To:
Subject:	Review your new account

Providian Bank

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