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Be advised that the following email has been sent out to
Citibank's account members. The email is a phishing attempt and any
links contained in it should not be followed. The link that appears in
the email will not take you to the Citibank login page, but a false page
set up to look like the Citibank account log in page. This is commonly
done to either steal your login information or install malware on your
computer without you knowing.
The bottom line is, no financial institution will send out an
email to request anything of you, whether to log into your account or
provide information. They will always wait for you to contact them or
contact you in an official manner.
Below is a copy of the actual email. You can see the link presented in
the body of the email and then the actual link in brackets (spoofed
address). As you can see he links do not match. Whenever receiving an
email with a hyperlink, always copy and paste the actual text into the
address bar of your internet browser to make sure it is not spoofed.
The link enclosed in brackets has been altered slightly to protect the
curious but left as an example.
"Dear Citibank Customer,
A scheduled maintenance on the Citibank Online Banking system has just
been completed. In order to ensure your account (s) held at Citibank
remain active, you will be required to immediately Login to your account
(s). Kindly follow the link below to Citibank Online to continue:
Thank you for choosing Citibank"
IA Manager
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