We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your Citibank banking accoung may have been accessed by an anauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the Citibank network is our primery concern.
Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporalily limited access to sensitive account features.
To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not beed compromised:
Login to your Citibank account.
Review your recent account history for any unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have beed made. If any unauthorized activity has taken place on your account, report this to
Citibank staff inmediately.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire Citibank system. Thank your for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
The Citibank Team
Please don not reply to this e-mail. Mail to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your Citibank account and choose “Help” link in the header of any page.
As I’m sure everyone knows, this is a classic “phishing” message, and you should never click on links in e-mail messages like this even if it looks like it’s coming from your bank or credit card provider.
If you get a message like this from PayPal, your own bank, eBay, your credit card company, etc. and you’re not sure if it’s real, log on to that institution’s site directly through your web browser (don’t click on any links in the email) and verify that your information is up to date that way.
Yeah and the thing is, big companies or insitutions will never send you such a mail anyway, it would be a very “insecure” way of doing business.
Some anti-phishing software check if the links in the email comes from the same network as the mail server used to send the mail, but I’m not sure if the built-in anti-phishing feature in IE and Firefox has that option.
Oh by the way I got a really fun spam yesterday. About a “loophole” found in banking systems that would allow me to get rid of all of my debts!
Our attorneys discovered a loop hole inside the bank laws, Using this
discovery, we have been successful at totally eliminating peoples
creditcarddebt without them paying another dime. We GuaranteeThat we can do
this for you.
Not only are these excelent folks watching out for my (nonexistent) CitiBank account but they are also keeping my PayPal informations safe and secure. I’m so pleased.
NOTICE: Your PayPal Account Has Been Temporarily Limited
Dear valued PayPal member,
In accordance with our major database relocation, we are currently having major adjustments and updates of user accounts to verify that the informations you have provided with us during the sign-up process are true and correct. However, we have noticed some discrepancies regarding your account at Paypal. Possible causes are inaccurate contact information and invalid logout process.We have limited access to your account until this issue has been resolved. This is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not compromised. In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we require some specific information from you.
Login follow our secure site and update all necessary informations to your account.
Review your recent account history for any unauthorized payments sent or received, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have been made.
To get started, please go directly to > https://www.paypal.com/ > log in to your PayPal account and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible.
If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the link below and then complete all steps from the following page as we try to verify your identity.
Click here to activate your account
We recently noted one or more attempts to log in to your account from a foreign country. If you accessed your account while traveling, the attempt(s) may have been initiated by you.
IP Address Time Country
64.191.33.10 November 22, 2006 13:41:09 PDT United States
195.202.49.114 November 23, 2006 18:49:21 PDT Russia
216.36.89.191 November 21, 2006 17:56:05 PDT United Kingdom
Choosing to ignore this message will result in a temporary suspension of your account within 24 hours, until you will choose to solve this unpleasant situation.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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The ones I love are the ones that tell me my application for credit has been approved. The only problems are 1) I haven’t applied for credit 2) I’ve never heard of their institution and 3) it’s not my name they’re using! (I actually got three directed to someone named “Nathan Hagan”). 'Bout the lamest phishing I’ve ever seen! I get two or three of those a day.
