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We have learned that criminals have launched a major e-mail campaign to deploy the infamous
ZeuS Trojan e-mail, which will send spam messages disguised as fraud alerts from the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS), Twitter account hijack warnings, or salacious Youtube.com videos.
The fraudulent IRS e-mail uses the verbiage "Notice of Underreported Income" as the Subject
Line and encourages the recipient to click a hyperlink to review their tax statement. All of the
latest e-mails use a variety of URL shortening services.
To help protect against fraudulent activity, Waterford Bank, N.A. continues to strongly recommend that you
- Ensure that up-to-date antivirus, antispam and antispyware programs are being used on all your PCs,
especially those that you use to access Online Banking
- Never open suspicious emails - delete them immediately
- Never download files from unknown sources
- Only click on Internet links in EMails when you are expecting them and you know where they are going.
(Hint: hover the mouse over the link and make sure that where it says it is going matches what shows
in the text of the EMail)
As always, you can
contact us with any questions or concerns that you have.
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