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VISA

Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from Visa, the credit card company, and instructing you to register to activate 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 Visa directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact Visa 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:

Visa

From:	"Visa Security Department" <noreply@visa.com>
To:
Subject:	Verified by visa update
Date:	Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:07:02 +0300

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Visa Security Program

Dear client,
The VISA company informs you that in result of a failure in the Verified by Visa system, the sum of 414.95$ was taken from your card.
If you haven't made any purchases during the week, then please register in the Verified by Visa system so that the money can be recovered.
This system fully protects you from unauthorized use of your card.
If you are already registered in the Verified by Visa system, then you have to register one more time to activate your account.
Follow the link to continue the registration process.