Dear CitiBank Customer ...

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:05 am

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:

1. Login to your Citibank account.

2. 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.

To get started, please on the link below:

https://webaddressdeleted.com/

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.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:09 am

Are you warning or entertaining us JF?

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:15 am

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.

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:36 am

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.

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:38 am

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.

Contact us at:
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Tony · Post by **Tony** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:41 am

Jerry Freeman wrote: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:

1. Login to your Citibank account.

2. 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.

To get started, please on the link below:

https://webaddressdeleted.com/

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.

It amazes me how many crooks ignore spell checkers!

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:44 am

What're the odds? MY Citibank accoung was suspended today too!

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:50 am

brewerpaul wrote:What're the odds? MY Citibank accoung was suspended today too!

Even stranger. I've had accounts suspended with banks I didn't know I had accounts with.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:52 am

Azalin wrote: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!

Apparently I won 1million Euros on the Spanish Euromillions lottery last week!

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:13 am

By the time I got to "temporalily," I was almost falling out of my chair laughing.

Best wishes,
Jerry

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:19 am

At first I thought beed was a typo but I see now it must be the past tense of be. Logical.

Carol

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:25 am

cskinner wrote:At first I thought beed was a typo but I see now it must be the past tense of be. Logical.

Carol

Oh!

Very astute.

I wondered why they kept using that spelling.

Best wishes,
Jerry

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:27 am

Hmmm, and does "anauthorized" mean the same thing as "euthanized?"

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:27 am

Are you sure you reproduced that web address correctly? https://webaddressdeleted.com/

It doesn't seem to work for me.

djm

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:50 am

cskinner wrote:At first I thought beed was a typo but I see now it must be the past tense of be. Logical.

Carol

I beed glad dat you seed dat, even temporalily.

--James

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