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Fraudulent e-mails
Watch out for
fraudulent e-mails requesting personal information!
Medical Center e-mail users have recently seen an increase in fraudulent
e-mails. Medical Information Technology has content filtering systems
in place that prevent some of these e-mails from getting through but it
cannot legitimately filter all of it.
Some of the recent e-mail messages appear to originate from:
SunTrust Bank
Citibank
Ebay
U.S. Bank
Paypal and others
These messages are requesting a “verification” of credit card and logon
ID/passwords. The messages may also contain malicious code. DO
NOT respond and DO NOT
click on links or pictures within these e-mails! Please
delete the e-mails!
Want to know
more?
These fraudulent e-mails are known as “Phishing Attacks”
using spoofed (fake) e-mails and falsified websites designed to scam
recipients into divulging personal and financial data such as credit
card numbers, account usernames and passwords and social security
numbers. By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known companies such
as those listed above, scammers are convincing recipients to give up
personal information that is later used for
credit card fraud, identity theft, and
financial loss.
To read more on
“Phishing Attacks” and how to avoid similar scams, please visit the
following website:
http://www.antiphishing.org |
