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 01/26/2004 04:34:30 PM · #1

From: "FDIC" Add to Address Book
To: pitsaman@yahoo.com
Subject: Important News About Your Bank Account
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:45:43 -0400 (EST)



To whom it may concern;
In cooperation with the Department Of Homeland Security, Federal, State and Local Governments your account has been denied insurance from the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation due to suspected violations of the Patriot Act. While we have only a limited amount of evidence gathered on your account at
this time it is enough to suspect that currency violations may have occurred in your account and due to this activity we have withdrawn Federal Deposit
Insurance on your account until we verify that your account has not been used in a violation of the Patriot Act.

As a result Department Of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to suspend all deposit insurance on
your account until such time as we can verify your identity and your account information.

Please verify through our IDVerify below. This information will be checked against a federal government database for identity verification. This only takes
up to a minute and when we have verified your identity you will be notified of said verification and all suspensions of insurance on your account will be
lifted.

//www.fdic.gov/idverify/cgi-bin/index.htm

Failure to use IDVerify below will cause all insurance for your account to be terminated and all records of your account history will be sent to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. for analysis and verification. Failure to provide proper identity may also result in a visit from Local,
State or Federal Government or Homeland Security Officials.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Donald E. Powell

Chairman Emeritus FDIC

John D. Hawke, Jr.

Comptroller of the Currency

Michael E. Bartell

Chief Information Officer

01/26/2004 04:37:48 PM · #2
The FBI has an internet fraud unit -- I think you can forward it there. Forward it also to the originating ISP as I think they can be held liable if they don't stop it once informed.

Message edited by author 2004-01-26 16:38:30.
 01/26/2004 04:40:00 PM · #3
Here is another one:

From: "U.S. Bank" Add to Address Book
To: pitsaman@yahoo.com
Subject: Your account at U.S. Bank has been suspended.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:08:41 -0400 (EST)



Dear U.S. Bank account holder,
We regret to inform you, that we had to block your U.S. Bank account
because we have been notified that your account may have been compromised by outside parties.

Our terms and conditions you agreed to state that your account must always be under your control or those you designate at all times.
We have noticed some activity related to your account that indicates that other parties may have access and or control of your information in your account.

These parties have in the past been involved with money laundering, illegal drugs, terrorism and various Federal Title 18 violations.
In order that you may access your account we must verify your identity by clicking on the link below.

Please be aware that until we can verify your identity no further access to your account will be allowed and we will have no other liability for your
account or any transactions that may have occurred as a result of your failure to reactivate your account as instructed below.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

https://www.usbank.com/account_verify/cgi/index.htm

Before you reactivate your account, all payments have been frozen, and you will not be able to use your account in any way until we have verified your
identity.

01/26/2004 04:40:07 PM · #4
The saddest thing is that there are plenty of people naive enough to fall for stupid crap like this!
 01/26/2004 04:45:40 PM · #5
I got one a couple weeks ago re: "please click this link, enter your full credit card number, and PIN" to verify something or other.

I reported it.

01/26/2004 04:47:11 PM · #6
There have been similar scams in the UK. Sad.
I have also had my email address used and now get a couple of hundred 'non-delivery' emails a day.

Mike


01/26/2004 05:10:55 PM · #7
Originally posted by chinstrap:
I have also had my email address used and now get a couple of hundred 'non-delivery' emails a day.


Me, too! I can't tell you how much I despise seeing e-mail, supposedly sent by me, encouraging people to get their penises ("peni?") enlarged. I'm not a big fan of government intervention into the use of the Internet, but this whole spam issue has just GOT to be resolved.
 01/26/2004 05:13:50 PM · #8
I get alot of this stuff " Crystal Lori! Enlarge your penis and satisfy your woman tonight!"

Please, target your spamming to people who can actually USE your product. Still, funny none the less.
01/26/2004 05:14:00 PM · #9
Wow! That is messed up! It sounds so scary even tho you may knwo it is bogus! I hope you will report if you havent already!
 01/26/2004 05:16:17 PM · #10
This is my favorite so far:

Dear OnlineCitibank Users,

This message was sent by the Citicards sevrers to veerify your e-mail
address. You must cptolmee this peroscs by clicking on the link
below and enteering in the smmall window your Citibank Debit
full card nummber and CARD PIN that you use on ATM.
This is done for your potecrtion -d- becouse some of our memebrs no
lgenor have access to their email adsderses and we must verify it.

To veerify your e-mail adress and access your CitibankOnline account, click on
the link bellow. If ntohing hapneps when you clic on the link -x coppy
and passte the link into the adress bar of your window.

//www.citibank.com/?c1DnwGptgYbiHrtTvlzG50OKdcX0gFprH3PdJgw1fHjWaMOF9o

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Thank you for using Citbiank!
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 01/26/2004 05:18:46 PM · #11
What happens if you submit bogus information?
 01/26/2004 05:19:11 PM · #12
Unfortunately these days the majority of people do need a spam filter. Here's a couple that I'm most familiar with:

//www.spampal.org/
//starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes/

Also, Mozilla Mail now comes with spam filtering as standard:

//www.mozilla.org/

I'll try and provide some more concise help (if anyone's interested) when I'm at work tomorrow. (I work for a large corporate content filtering company.)
 01/26/2004 05:21:37 PM · #13
Originally posted by GeneralE:
What happens if you submit bogus information?

They try the bogus info, it doesn't work, they move onto another poor victim. :-(
 01/26/2004 05:40:20 PM · #14
Originally posted by mk:
This is my favorite so far:

Dear OnlineCitibank Users,

This message was sent by the Citicards sevrers to veerify your e-mail
address. You must cptolmee this peroscs by clicking on the link
below and enteering in the smmall window your Citibank Debit
full card nummber and CARD PIN that you use on ATM.
This is done for your potecrtion -d- becouse some of our memebrs no
lgenor have access to their email adsderses and we must verify it.

To veerify your e-mail adress and access your CitibankOnline account, click on
the link bellow. If ntohing hapneps when you clic on the link -x coppy
and passte the link into the adress bar of your window.

//www.citibank.com/?c1DnwGptgYbiHrtTvlzG50OKdcX0gFprH3PdJgw1fHjWaMOF9o

---------------------------------------------
Thank you for using Citbiank!
---------------------------------------------


This is the one I was referring to! Yikes!
 01/26/2004 05:40:28 PM · #15
watch out for the ebay ones too. Says something about your account being questioned - please fill in credit card details etc. They have all the ebay logo type etc and even an ebay address (something like //secure.ebay.com)


01/26/2004 05:41:06 PM · #16
Originally posted by PaulMdx:
Unfortunately these days the majority of people do need a spam filter. Here's a couple that I'm most familiar with:

//www.spampal.org/
//starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes/

Also, Mozilla Mail now comes with spam filtering as standard:

//www.mozilla.org/

I'll try and provide some more concise help (if anyone's interested) when I'm at work tomorrow. (I work for a large corporate content filtering company.)


Thanks, Paul.
I will try these. :)
 01/26/2004 05:45:13 PM · #17
Originally posted by PaulMdx:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
What happens if you submit bogus information?

They try the bogus info, it doesn't work, they move onto another poor victim. :-(

I was hoping that the credit card companies might be on the lookout for submissions of what might obviously be bogus or random information, and somehow trace back where the request originates.
 01/26/2004 06:10:45 PM · #18
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I was hoping that the credit card companies might be on the lookout for submissions of what might obviously be bogus or random information, and somehow trace back where the request originates.

It's quite easy to CRC check a credit card number to see if it's valid. Also, I'd imagine a lot of transactions go through that are bogus just by accident.

Apparently it's fairly easy to convict this type of fraudster once they're found. The problem is finding them.
 01/26/2004 06:18:35 PM · #19
If I install a spam filter, how will I find out how to enlarge my breasts?
 01/26/2004 06:21:10 PM · #20
Originally posted by Konador:
If I install a spam filter, how will I find out how to enlarge my breasts?

The spam filter I work with actually has categories. So you can turn off financial spam, but not adult, or whatever. Useful, eh? ):-)
 01/26/2004 06:23:22 PM · #21
Originally posted by jonpink:
watch out for the ebay ones too. Says something about your account being questioned - please fill in credit card details etc. They have all the ebay logo type etc and even an ebay address (something like //secure.ebay.com)


I get these all the time from Ebay and Paypal. If you check them out, you will notice that the FULL link actually has "@some other URL or IP address" after the "//secure.ebay.com" which is a redirect to the actual bogus site.
 01/26/2004 06:31:29 PM · #22
I was getting so much of that crap that I had to cancell all my email accounts and start with new email address and I have NOT published those to any places that display your email address

James
 01/26/2004 06:32:32 PM · #23
Just came across this on the cnn website...thought it might interest you.

E-mail scam

Shannon
 01/26/2004 07:55:42 PM · #24
Originally posted by Konador:
If I install a spam filter, how will I find out how to enlarge my breasts?


Google, obviously.

E
 01/26/2004 08:24:30 PM · #25
My son got an email recently that said his charge account was being debited for $200 and some change because he had been identified as someone who produces child porn, and if he thinks this is in error he should fill out the form along with his credit card number and email it to them! Some people would freak out so quickly at being accused of something so horrible, they may just do that. We have also been getting alot of credit card fraud and stolen ones in the store I work at lately...scary
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