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It has come to our attention
that credit union
members have received the
fraudulent
e-mails
below, soliciting recipients for personal information including name, phone,
e-mail and credit card information.
If you receive calls from
members, please inform them NOT to share any personal information. We
will never
ask for any personal credit card or financial information via e-mail. We
do not share our internal email lists with anyone, and have security in place
to ensure that our internal databases are not being accessed. Neither
CreditUnions.com nor its vendor partners are affiliated with this phishing
scam.
If you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact the CreditUnions.com team. Call 800-446-7453
SAMPLE of EMAIL:
CreditUnions.com Inc, OnlineŽ Services - Security Notice
You have
received this email because you or someone had used your
account from different locations or you or someone failed to
login for several times. For security purposes we are required
to open an investigation into this matter and lock your
account.
In order to unlock your online account, we require that you
confirm some of your online account details. To help speed up
this process, please access our website following the link
bellow. This way we can complete the verification of your
CreditUnions.com
Account and have your account unlocked.
https://www.creditunions.com/home/main/LogIn.aspx?chnl=HP&goto=/
Please Note: If
we do no receive the appropriate account verification within
the next 48 hours, your account will remain locked and then
suspended. The purpose of this verification is to ensure that
your account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the
fraud from our community.
We appreciate your support and understanding and thank you for
your prompt attention to this matter.
New Phishing Scam
8-11-06
-----Original
Message-----
From: NCUA Account Review
Department [mailto:review@ncua.gov]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006
7:06 AM
Subject: Dear FCU/CU account
holder !
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Account Info Verification |
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Dear FCU/CU
holder account,
As part of our security measures, we
regularly screen activity in Federal Credit Unions (FCU/CU)
network.
We recently noticed the following issue on your account: A recent review
of your account determined that we require some additional information
from you in order to provide you with secure service. Case ID Number:
PP-065-617-349 For your protection, we have limited access to your
account until additional security measures can be completed. We
apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please log in to your
FCU/CU account to restore
your access as soon as possible.
You must click the link below
and fill in the form on the following page to complete the verification
process.
In accordance
with NCUA User Agreement, your account access will remain limited until
the issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, if access to your account
remains limited for an extended period of time, it may result in further
limitations or eventual account closure. We encourage you to log in to
your FCU account as soon as possible to help avoid this. We thank you
for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is
a security measure intended to help protect you and your account.
We
apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
NCUA Account Review Department |
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