CEFCU Customers Face Phishing Scam Heat

It has been revealed by HOI 19 News that a scammer is attempting to deceive CEFCU (Caltech Employees Federal Credit Union) clients into relinquishing their private data. Users informed us they got e-mails that appeared to be from the credit union. Upon enquiring at CEFCU they found that it wasn't true as reported by Hoinews on April 19, 2007.

During March 2007, it was informed that e-mail "Phishing" that seemed to have been coming from NCUA and NASA Federal Credit Union were conveyed to the people and several members of the credit union. After that CEFCU helped the NCUA clients recover their confidential information.

Presently, CEFCU alleges that its customers are being targeted by phishers. They discovered the fake e-mail on April 18, 2007, which declared that a CEFCU account card was found missing or thieved and requested them to confirm their social security and credit card numbers over the Internet.

According to Phil Chaddock, the Chief Technology Officer at CEFCU, these false sites were promptly detected and disenabled.

"Majority of these frauds originates from foreign shores and exploiting every opportunity to trap innocent users. They'll keep on looking for lapses on the part of users and if everything is protected - they keep progressing further," stated Chaddock in Hoinews's April 19, 2007 edition.

CEFCU claims to have dealt with this fraud, but others could emerge anytime. Therefore, they prompt their clients to take similar type of care that several of them took on 18th April 2007.

CEFCU asserts that every time it took care to warn its clients that a rising number of receivers are "e-mailed" in an endeavor to deceive them into furnishing classified private details like Account details, ID details or access code. The spams will often carry disturbing facts about your account but replying to these e-mails could endanger your account! If you get such e-mail messages, then erase them and inform the affair to the Internet Fraud Complaint Center at http://www.ifccfbi.gov.

Chaddock states that someone gave her private details to the false site, and now they're co-operating with her to recover her confidential information.

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