Western Union Phishing Scam

The email claiming to be from Western Union and notifying you to confirm information to restore your account access 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 Western Union directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact Western Union 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:

Dear Western Union Customer,

Please read this message and follow it's instructions.

Confirm Your Identity:
We are performing maintenance, which may interfere with access to your Online Services.
Due to these technical updates your online account has been flagged and we must confirm
that you are the rightful owner of the account. To Confirm Your Identity click the link below.
Please make sure you do this in a timely fashion as we look forward of bringing you updates regularly.

http://wumt.westernunion.com/asp/profile_update/secure/ID_214227/regLogin.asp?=profileConfirm

Important information from Westernunion.
This e-mail contains information directly related to your account with us, other services to which you have
subscribed, and/or any application you may have submitted. Westernunion and its service providers are
committed to protecting your privacy and ask you not to send sensitive account information through e-mail.

Thank you for using westernunion.com

Validation Department
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From:	"Western Union" <security@westernunion.com>
Subject:	Notification from Western Union
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:44:03 -0400

Western Union

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