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City Bank Scam 2 in the same day
by Bj aka Bill Brown Hosting and Backup Service provider
Bj aka Bill Brown 
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Watch out the scammers are renewing their efferts with the City Bank Phishing emails.
I received 2 within a couple of hours of each other. they both lead to different urls but the string of characters at the end were identical.
They are easy for me to spot as I am not a customer of City Bank
Dear valued Citibank user,
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the online banking community we have issued the following warning message.
It has come to our attention that your Citibank account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and enroll in the security upgrade, you will not run into any future problems with the Citibank online banking service. However, failure to meet our security requirements will result in your account suspension.
Once you have enrolled in our security upgrade your pending Citibank account transactions will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To confirm your bank account records please click here.
Note : Link removed for your own protection.
Thank you for your time,
Citibank Security Department.
Jan 1st 2008 22:08
Hosting and Backup Service...Watch out the scammers are renewing their efferts with the City Bank Phishing emails.
I received 2 within a couple of hours of each other. they both lead to different urls but the string of characters at the end were identical.
They are easy for me to spot as I am not a customer of City Bank
Dear valued Citibank user,
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the online banking community we have issued the following warning message.
It has come to our attention that your Citibank account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and enroll in the security upgrade, you will not run into any future problems with the Citibank online banking service. However, failure to meet our security requirements will result in your account suspension.
Once you have enrolled in our security upgrade your pending Citibank account transactions will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To confirm your bank account records please click here.
Note : Link removed for your own protection.
Thank you for your time,
Citibank Security Department.
Jan 1st 2008 22:08
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Jean DAndrea
 RetiredI regularly get those emails here in Australia, purporting to be from Citibank. Since I'm not a customer, they're always deleted on sight. Haven't had any about Wells Fargo or Bank of America though. Ours are more likely to be Westpac or ANZ Banks, although all our banks' names get used on occasions. Jan 1st 2008 22:27 |
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Arthur Webster
Just plain honestyHi, Bj, I dn't think that there is a single bank or financial institution that does not get used for these spoof emails - hopefully people receive enough from banks to which they do not belong ans so, realise what they are. BTW it is not a good idea to write back that you are not a client - they will keep trying this and other scams since you have confirmmed that your email address is valid. Jan 2nd 2008 11:08 |
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Bj aka Bill Brown
Hosting and Backup Service providerHi Arthur, I never reply to them. But very good advice for anyone tempted to. I just check a box in my mail washer and they are automatically reported and deleted. One click operation makes life so easy. Jan 2nd 2008 11:17 |
It's amazing how much effort they put into it. I regularly get these from Citibank(not a customer), Wells Fargo(not a customer), Bank of America(prior to becoming a customer, strangley enough I have not seen one since I opened my account there) In addition to the Paypal, Ebay and AOL ones.
Jan 1st 2008 22:14