[mdlug] Email BOFA Scam: FYI

[Aaron Kulkis]

David Lane wrote:
> I know that many of you already knows this but there is a scam that you get an email.
> 
> Where you bank emails you and you are prompted to give a lot of personal information.  
> 
> I just got one and it is unsetteling how real it looked. I did not give them information, I'm accually taking a printout to my back. 
> 
> I't just so messed up that people are doing this kind of stuff.
> 

Report it to the FBI's Internet Crimes Taskforce.

You can do THAT online, too.

Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3)

> The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between
> the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar
> Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
> 
> IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer
> criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber
> crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and
> easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected
> criminal or civil violations. For law enforcement and regulatory
> agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3
> provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving
> Internet related crimes.


http://www.ic3.gov/