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Sample Credit Union Phish

From: Credit Union 1 [mailto:accounts@creditunion1.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 200710:47 AM

Subject: Credit Union 1 temporarily suspended your account.
Importance: High

Dear Member, 

Credit Union 1temporarily suspended your account.
Reason: Billing failure.
We need you to complete an account update so we can unlock your account.

To start the update process follow the link below :

https://online[dot]creditunion1[dot]org/support/loing.hbs

The link displayed above is not the actual link. The real link takes you to http://ych[dot]com[dot]tw/creditunion1.org/login.htm.

The TW designation indicates that this server is located in Taiwan, not a typical location for US credit union web servers.

Once you have completed the process, we will send you an email notifying
that your account is available again. After that you can access your account at
any time.
 
The information provided will be treated in confidence and stored in our secure database.

If you fail to provide required information your account will be automatically deleted from Credit Union 1 database.

This threat of loss of service is typical of phishing scams.

Copyright © Credit Union 1, All Rights Reserved

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