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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

American Express

 

Fraud. It's a fake. I know this as it came to my late wife's e-mail address and she never had an American Express card. It also links to a site in the Czech Republic.

Celia is obviously still on the side of law and order, a year after her death.

One out of five!

Reference Number: 20083239308459
Dear American Express Card holder:
As part of the new security measures, all American Express Card holders are required to complete American Express Customer Form. Please complete the form as soon as possible.
To access the form please click on the following link:
http://www.americanexpress.com/myca/form/serverstack/action?request_type=377630742670730593096542825668258995392815560975967572
Thank you for using your American Express Card.

Sincerely,
American Express Customer Service

Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.

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