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If I click the link in the e-mail below, I get redirected to: http://rakuende.com/.USBank/RequestRouter/
Play with it by putting a fake account login. I'm going to call US Bank.
- Pat
Dear U.S Bank customer,
We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your U.S Bank account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party.Protecting the security of your account and of the U.S Bank network is out primary concern.
Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive U.S Bank account features.
Click the link below in order to regain access to your account:
https://www4.usbank.com/internetBanking/RequestRouter?requestCmdId=DisplayLoginPage
For more information about how to protect your account, please visit U.S Bank Security Center.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and apriciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire U.S Bank system.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
The U.S BANK Security Department Team.
Please do not reply to this mail.Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your U.S Bank account and chose the "Help" link in the header of any page.
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I came back from NZ yesterday and checked my junk mail account (the address I use for everything but personal e-mail, and it gets 99% spam). It had 350 messages, including the spoofed message from US Bank, and also from Citi Bank. Thexe folks are getting pretty clever.
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Same scam with PayPal too.
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You may already know this but you can forward the message to the real financial company being spoofed by typing "spoof@_________," and filling in Citibank.com, etc.
I think the companies appreciate the chance to find out who's sending these.
Thanks.
JB
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You may already know this but you can forward the message to the real financial company being spoofed by typing "spoof@_________," and filling in Citibank.com, etc.
I think the companies appreciate the chance to find out who's sending these.
Thanks.
JB
Only make sure you forward it with ALL email headers of the original email included.
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Just got my WP Visa Card last Friday.
Email came last Saturday asking for "updating security info."
Called US Bank today. A new card will be issued with new PIN.
Thank you, FT folks!
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Even though WP's is partners with US Bank. Not quite sure this belongs in this forum. So I am going to move it over to Visa Forum.
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Citibank has a list of scams on their security webpage. They also have a method of reporting albeit a little short sighted with a 1000 character limitations. You can always forward the email.
I've received about 10 this past weekend stating my account had excessive access attempts from a specific IP address. I'm warned that I will lose my account if I don't revalidate :rolleyes:
If the link works I always enter info with specific colorful wording, as if it really matters. It's unfortunate that some folks do not realize its all a big scam. :(
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(copied from another post)
Do not click eht blue words in the email message as the message tells you to. Instead manually tgo to the web site of Citibank or whomever. Should tyhere be no warnings on the real web site you went to manually, you can assume everything in the email message is false, you won't be cancelled, you won't be charged a late fee, you do not have to revalidate, etc.
Other useful hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr
Model for an urgent email:
"There is a problem with your account [any amount of detail included]. Please go to to our web site [www,citibank.com or whatever] and enter this code number: xxxxxx
(no blue links to click)
"
Then, in a prominent place on the official web site:
"If you were contacted by email about a problem with your account, log in (space for user name and password provided) and enter the code number from the email message here ___________ and click Go"
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I see the thread was left here, which is good. Since a high % of users carry the NW US Banks card, and probably do not visit the VISA site.
Anyway, good general information for everyone to avoid.
As to the poster that wishes that people would realize this stuff is a scam, Amen. I got an email that came from a long list list of forwarders just this week including a minister telling me that Bill Gates would send me million$$$ just for using email. Do people not have ANY BRAINS?
EDIT - oops, just realized that I have been linked and moved to the VISA forum. Oh well.
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For more on this sort of thing in general, go to the Web site of the Internet Fraud Complaint Center. The IFCC is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center:
http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
For information about this specific type of activity, click "IFCC Warnings" in the navigation table down the left side of the page, then scroll to June 30, 2003. Clicking on that link will download a three-page PDF document.
The most recent warning, from four days ago as of today, involves the FBI's supposedly requesting the recipient's assistance in an investigation by purchasing merchandise over the Internet. I haven't gotten that one yet, though most of the others in the list are distressingly familiar!
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Would there be any advantage in replying with totally bogus info; the intention is to cause the scammers problems when they try to make use of that info?
For example:
Name: George Washington
DOB: 2/22/1732
SS#: 111-11-1111
etc.
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The reason you do not want to reply is that they will then know that the email address they sent the phishing spam to is valid and active once you link to the site from the email. They can then sell it to 100 other spammers, or attempt to install spyware on your PC when you are there.
It's done by a number of different ways too detailed to mention here. So, just forward it, with full headers, to the bank. And, BTW, I got two of them in the past 5 days, and for US Bank it's fraud_help@usbank.com
See here: US Bank Fraud (http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/promo/personal/fraud_reporting_email.cfm)
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I received the mails from US Bank and I do not have an account with them. The only US Bank offers I get are from NW mileage card.
Received citibank "warnings" and sent them to citibank...no response.