Security Center Alert - Fraudulent FDIC emails

by Chesapeake Bank on Friday, September 2, 2011 at 1:00pm ·

FDIC Issues Special Alert on Fraudulent E-Mails With Infected Attachment The FDIC yesterday issued a special alert on fraudulent e-mails that appear to be sent from the agency and contain an infected attachment. The bogus e-mails have addresses on the ‘From” line such as “no.reply@fdic.gov” or “notify84zma@fdic.gov”; inform recipients that their “account ACH and WIRE transaction have been temporarily suspended for security reasons”; and contain spelling and grammatical errors. The e-mails’ attachment -- “FDIC_document.zip” -- is likely to release malicious software if opened, the FDIC said.

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