| Status | Hoax | | Comments | 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 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.
| | Description | 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due to this activity we have withdrawn Federal Deposit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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