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May 24, 2006
EMAIL Hell - Federal Scam Gives Spammers No Credit
A new phishing EMAIL is making the rounds. This one claims to be from the National Credit Union Administration. The message (which looks very professional, with links to the real NCUA site and everything) starts out thusly.
This notice informs you that your Credit Union bank has joined our Federal Credit Union(FCU) network. For both, our and your security, we are asking you to activate an online account on our database. After activation you can login on our system with your Card Number and your Credit/Debit PIN number.
After a few more paragraphs of verbiage, you're given a link to an identity theft site.
The punch line is that after all the work the spammers did to create the message and format it to look nice, they forgot to change the FROM address, so the return address for this message about your membership in a credit union is service@paypal.com.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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