Be careful....2nd time I received this in a month

[serryjw]

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What is going on? Perhaps you have the same name as another

customer, or a very similar SS#? I'd call, and I'm sure you will!

[pnorman]

4. It's almost certainly a SCAM.

They're "phishing" for personal information, so they can rip you off. I've gotten several from a "bank" purporting to be "CitiBank", and I don't even have an account with them. Here's one example from Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/phishing/suntrust.asp
Likewise with PayPal.

pnorman

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thank you for pointing this out! I had forgotten about "phishing."

Yuck...I'll be looking out for things like this, too.. Thank you again, pnorman.

[xmas74]

2. They're phishing.

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. I've gotten a lot of those lately.

Supposedly from about 5 different banks, yet the e-mail is always exactly word for word the same. One of them actually DID pretend to be from my bank, but fortunately I got the fake ones first, so I knew what I was looking at.

What's even worse is that these all showed up at my work e-mail.

[serryjw]

5. I got my first one from TCF

I think it may be a local Denver bank. I did call and the guy in risk management was not very interested. I think they are getting plenty of calls. They probably send out one from every bank until the accidently find your bank. I know USBANK and they have NEVER send me anything like this.

[regnaD kciN]

7. I get at least four or five of these a month...

...generally from banks where I have never had an account.

I also used to run an e-mail list from my ISP. Any error messages or other maintenance information would get sent to a special "request" mailbox that was redirected to my account. I started getting lots of these bank "notifications" to that "request" mailbox. In other words, these "someone is trying to access your account" scams were being sent, not to any real-life individual, but to the mailing-list software itself. To put it simply, the mailbot was getting notified about its supposed banking habits.

:crazy:

(Said mailbot also received several porn e-mails, each describing itself as "information you requested." :eyes: I guess mailbots need love, too!)

[izzie]

8. I do not bank on line but if it was a letter I would put it in trash

Next time you are in the bank as them.

[RebelOne]

9. I get one of those at least once a week.

Just hit the delete button. They are identity thieves.