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FDIC Insurance Scam

January 2004

This one comes in your mail and threatens your bank accounts. It then
wants you to connect to the FDIC website and verify your account
information. If you check the link carefully, it actually goes to,

http://www.fdic.gov@211.191.98.216:3180/index.htm

Which is definitely not the FDIC. If you ever get something like this,
call your bank and ask them what is going on and do not connect to the
fraudulent web pages and give them any information.

There is also information on the FDIC website describing this scam.

Subject: Important News About Your Bank Account

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have withdrawn Federal Deposit Insurance on your account until we verify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

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