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The email claiming to be from Wells Fargo 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 Wells Fargo Bank directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact your 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:
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:32:36 +0100 To: __ From: "Wells Fargo Bank" <alert.customerservice@wellsfargo.com> Subject: Preiodic Account Review
Dear customers:
Wells Fargo is constantly working to increase the security of all Online Banking users. To ensure the integrity of our online payment system, we periodically review accounts.
Your account might be placed on restricted status. Restricted accounts continue to receive payments, but they are limited in their ability to send or withdraw funds.
To lift up this restriction, you need to login into your account (with your username or SSN and your password), then you have to complete our verification process. You must confirm your credit card details and your billing information as well. All restricted accounts will have their billing information unconfirmed, meaning that they may no longer be able send money from their account until they have updated their billing information on file. To initiate the billing update confirmation process, please follow the link bellow and fill out the necessary fields:
https://online.wellsfargo.com/signon?LOB=CONS
Thank you,
Wells Fargo - Online Banking
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