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Consumer Alerts

 

01/30/13: E-mail Claiming to be from the FDIC: Regarding ACH and Wire Transfers 

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has received numerous reports of fraudulent e-mails that have the appearance of being sent from the FDIC.

While the e-mails exhibit variations in the "From" and "Subject" lines, the messages are similar.

The fraudulent e-mails are addressed to the attention of the “Accounting Department” and meant to notify recipients that that that “ACH and WIRE transactions” are being blocked until “a special security software” is installed.

They then instruct recipients to go to a Web site for instructions on how to download the necessary files by clicking on a hyper-link provided (Note: the Web site addresses (URL) vary widely).

This e-mail and link are fraudulent. Recipients should consider the intent of this e-mail as an attempt to collect personal or confidential information, or to load malicious software onto end users' computers. Recipients should not click on the link provided.

 The FDIC does not issue unsolicited e-mails to consumers or business account holders.


10/03/12: E-mail Claiming to be from the FDIC: Regarding ACH and Wire Transfers 

This message is to notify you of fraudulent e-mails in circulation claiming to be from the FDIC.  Please consider both to be fraudulent.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has received numerous reports of fraudulent e-mails that have the appearance of being sent from the FDIC.

While the e-mails exhibit variations in the "Subject" lines, the messages are similar.  They all make reference to the suspension of recipient’s ability to conduct transfers via ACH and/or wire transfer.  The e-mails then encourage recipients to install a software update by clicking on a link provided.  They then say that functionality will be restored once the software update is installed.

These e-mails and the link provided are fraudulent.  Recipients should consider the intent of these e-mails to load malicious software on the recipient’s computer, or to collect personal or confidential information.  Recipients should not click on the link provided.

The FDIC does not send unsolicited e-mails to consumers or business account holders. 


 

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