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Phishing Scam E-mails
During the past year, I received many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use "official" looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a website such as EBay, Paypal, America Online, banks, financial institutions. They generally imply that your account will be suspended or deactivated unless you click the link to the webpage that is linked from the e-mail. Sometimes they say that someone is trying to use your account or this is done for "security" purposes. Once you are at the site, they will ask for personal information. You may be asked 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 still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received.
Visa(2)

Dear VISA Credit Card Owner ,
VISA is devoted to keeping a safe environment for its community of consumers
and producers. To guarantee the safety of your account, VISA deploys some of
the most advanced security measures in the world and our anti-fraud units
regularly screen the VISA database for suspicious activity.
We recently have discovered that multiple computers have attempted to log into
your VISA. Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were
presented before the logons. We now require you to re-validate your account
information to us. If this is not completed by May 20, 2006, we will be forced
to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent
purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.
In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific
information from you.
Please Click
Here or on the link below to verify your account
http://www.visa.com/secure_update/update
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that
this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporary
suspend your account.
VISA Security Team
American Airlines Credit Union
American National Bank of Texas
Bank of America (1, 2, 3)
Barclays Bank (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Chase Bank (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Corporate America Family Credit Union
Credit Union Nat'l Association (1,2)
E-Bay (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
National Credit Union Administraion
PayPal (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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