Pass this along to your parents or grandparents

[Sentrosi]

I just received this e-mail. You may want to inform anyone older than you about this scam. It looks official, but it is not. The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) would need a legal document, like a search warrant, to suspend your account. Some people will probably click the link and fill out all the info. Do not do this. This is just another pathetic attempt at true haxxors to get personal information on you to use against you (Social Security numbers, CC numbers, account numbers, etc.)

The e-mail:

To whom it may concern;
In cooperation with the Department Of Homeland Security, Federal, State and Local Governments your account has been denied insurance from the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation due to suspected violations of the Patriot Act. While we have only a limited amount of evidence gathered on your account at
this time it is enough to suspect that currency violations may have occurred in your account and due to this activity we have withdrawn Federal Deposit
Insurance on your account until we verify that your account has not been used in a violation of the Patriot Act.

As a result Department Of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to suspend all deposit insurance on
your account until such time as we can verify your identity and your account information.

Please verify through our IDVerify below. This information will be checked against a federal government database for identity verification. This only takes
up to a minute and when we have verified your identity you will be notified of said verification and all suspensions of insurance on your account will be
lifted.

http://www.fdic.gov/idverify/cgi-bin/index.htm

Failure to use IDVerify below will cause all insurance for your account to be terminated and all records of your account history will be sent to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. for analysis and verification. Failure to provide proper identity may also result in a visit from Local,
State or Federal Government or Homeland Security Officials.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Donald E. Powell

Chairman Emeritus FDIC

John D. Hawke, Jr.

Comptroller of the Currency

Michael E. Bartell

Chief Information Officer

[Octavian]

Ah well, you guys can do all the work on sending it. I'll just sit back and relax, no need to send it for me.

[Cyanide]

The link in the email doesn't even work.

[Onizuka]

Umm, i think thats a good thing.

[Octavian]

Oh crap, you just clicked on it? What an idiot. Usually it seems to do something or rather to your computer whether the link works or not.

[SDM]

Oh crap, you just clicked on it? What an idiot. Usually it seems to do something or rather to your computer whether the link works or not.
:banplz:

[Octavian]

I'm just trying to protect my good friend Cyanide.

[worldvengence]

ya, govt protcall states that contact can not be made by email because of its unsafe, unprotected nature, they can only inform/speak with u by phone, or in person, plus the call would probably come from your bank first

[Zodiac]

I hate the sad fuckers that do that kind of thing.

Thanks for the heads up Sent, I will let my parents know. :thumbsup:

[321]

Thanks for the heads up Sent, I will let my parents know. :thumbsup:

[Corrosion]

Wtf is the thread even about? someone fill me in.

[worldvengence]

The suspension of a Bank account....says the account holder is a trator basically to his country, so they are trying to make it where he cant be insured if his bank's stock tanks...lmfao

[edit] that is soo stupid if u really think about it

[321]

Wtf is the thread even about? someone fill me in.

Sent got one of thoes spam e-mail things with your name in it that make you feel like it is written only to you and they ask for personal information. He was warning us about it.

[Sentrosi]

Actually, I'm warning your parents or grandparents of this. I'm assuming not everyone here has the common sense of a mosquito. But your parents or grandparents might see something like that come via e-mail and think they have to do that. Granted, the link does not work, but even so, let your parents and grandparents know about these types of e-mails. Some actually post links that look like an official site. You enter your CC # or SS # and they have you by the balls.

[Jaged]

Heh, my dad got that exact email. Fortunatly, he is a 1337 computer hax0r and immediatly disposed of it.

[Cyanide]

Oh crap, you just clicked on it? What an idiot. Usually it seems to do something or rather to your computer whether the link works or not.

Didn't do anything to my computer. The combine power of the google toolbar's popup blocker, my ActiveX blocking router, and the little ninjas that live inside my computer serve to stop most of the annoying internet crap that plauge other people. :D