Another Scam Email!

[D.Koenemann]

Hey everyone be on your toes!
Here is an email I received today. It is a hoax :angry:

U.S. Bank National Association

Dear U.S. Bank valued customer,

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the online
banking community we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your account information needs
to be updated due to inactive customers, fraud and spoof reports.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and renew
your records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records may result in your account suspension.
This notification expires on June 28, 2004.

Once you have updated your account records your internet banking
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

Please follow the link below and renew your account information.

(Link was purposely left out!)

If you get an email like this delete it immediately, do not give any information at all.

D.Koenemann

[ccrazieprsn]

I got the same e-mail awhile back, and the funny thing was we had already closed our account with us bank. You can send usbank that e-mail and they will try to track it for you. There are only a certain amount of ways that someone can know you are a member of usbank AND have your e-mail address. It may be possible to find out where it came from by eliminating these possibilities. They were not able to track the specific i.p. of the person that sent it, but were able to tell me with 80% certainty that it came from a perticular safelist I was a member of. If ou send them that e-mail with the link, they Might be able to track it. Listen to his advise all, banking institutions do not ask you to click a link for personal information. When we acually needed to update our information because we moved, we were promted to sign in to the secure server first.

[Lene]

I have to download a certificate to get access to my internet bank,
and before I am allowed to download a certificate I must use a
verification code that they send through snail mail or to my mobile phone.

This way even if someone knows my details and password they can't
access my account from any other computer.
I think this is a quite good and secure practice.

Also I would really be wondering they day my bank starts sending me
e-mails in english :P