An
Email with the Subject "Your TCU account requires immediately authentication" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:47:36 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as "Teachers Credit Union"<onlineupdate@tcunet.com>.
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.
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[reply-to:] =>
[from:] => "Teachers Credit Union"
[subject:] => Your TCU account requires immediately authentication
[date:] => Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:47:28 -0500
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[x-scamdex-copyright:] => This Email is Copyright Scamdex.com 2009, Reproduction Prohibited
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For security reasons, your Internet Banking
Service session has timed out. Please login again by entering your member
number and password in order to re-activate your account.
If your account information's are not
updated within the next 24 hours, then we will assume this account is
fraudulent and will be suspended.
We apologize for this inconvenience,
but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Teachers
Federal Credit Union account has not been fraudulently used and
to combat fraud.
Thank you, Teachers Federal Credit Union
Internet Banking Department
Dear Teachers Federal Credit Union Member,
For security reasons, your Internet Banking
Service session has timed out. Please login again by entering your member
number and password in order to re-activate your account.
Please click the link below, which is
a SSL secured connection, to update your
account information:
http://www.tcunet.com/onlineservices/HB/Login.cgi
If your account information's are not
updated within the next 24 hours, then we will assume this account is
fraudulent and will be suspended.
We apologize for this inconvenience,
but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Teachers
Federal Credit Union account has not been fraudulently used and
to combat fraud.
Thank you,
Teachers Federal Credit Union
Internet Banking Department
