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An Email with the Subject "Attention: Important" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:51:45 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "BANK" <security@fedreserve.bank.net>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
Important:
You're getting this letter in connection with new directions issued by U.S. Treasury Department.
The directions concern U.S. Federal Wire online payments.
On January 21, 2009 a large-scaled phishing attack started and has been still lasting. A great
number of banks and credit unions is affected by this attack and quantity of illegal wire transfers
has reached an extremely high level.
U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in
common worked out a complex of immediate actions for the highest possible reduction of fraudulent
operations. We regret to inform you that definite restrictions will be applied to all Federal Wire
transfers from January 27 till February 6.
Here you can get more detailed information regarding the affected banks and U.S. Treasury
Department restrictions:
http://secure.us-ebanks.com/375816532/wire/
Federal Reserve Bank System Administration