Following is an email I got this morning. This had official bank letterhead and looked very real. But I was smart enough to know that it was fake, called my bank and found out that is is fake and just a Phishing attempt. If I had called the number and gave my banking info.. they can clean out the account! BEWARE!!!!
Dear Cardholder,
We detected irregular activity on your debit card on 03/26/2008. We have attempted to contact you to verify your account information, and unfortunately all methods of contact have been unsuccessful.
For your protection, your account has been disabled until we are able to verify your information to prevent any misuse of your account.
Please call customer service at (xxx) xxx xxxx to activate your account.
this message was remailed to you via: sale-xxxxxxxxx@craigslist.org
I do a lot of buying and selling on craigslist. someone sent me this thru one of my sales as you can see at the bottom of the email. I removed all numbers & bank name for protection. If you get anything like this... BEWARE!
If you were to give out the info they want............ they can use your account same as you can!!!!!
Fallenangel74southern, British Columbia Canada879 posts
I got one just recently that was United nations under the name of Dr.George Akintola? stating their was an international fund transfer problem and their compensating 150,000.it is in a bank draft under a nigerian bank.....Red flag to me I sent it off to WafL@phonebusters.com Thank you for your other site, I will try their since I havent heard back from this one.
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This had official bank letterhead and looked very real.
But I was smart enough to know that it was fake, called my bank and found out that is is fake and just a Phishing attempt.
If I had called the number and gave my banking info.. they can clean out the account!
BEWARE!!!!
Dear Cardholder,
We detected irregular activity on your debit card on 03/26/2008.
We have attempted to contact you to verify your account information,
and unfortunately all methods of contact have been unsuccessful.
For your protection, your account has been disabled until we are able to
verify your information to prevent any misuse of your account.
Please call customer service at (xxx) xxx xxxx to activate your account.
© XXXXXXX Bank 2007 | Member FDIC. An Equal Housing Lender
this message was remailed to you via: sale-xxxxxxxxx@craigslist.org
I do a lot of buying and selling on craigslist.
someone sent me this thru one of my sales as you can see at the bottom of the email.
I removed all numbers & bank name for protection.
If you get anything like this... BEWARE!
If you were to give out the info they want............ they can use your account same as you can!!!!!