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Another Vishing Scam Attempt from (801) 807-0323 and (515) 414-6098

Investigator’s Notes:

This another vishing attempt using a phony phone number to try and scam people- albeit not a very good one.  The first thing that caught my eye was that the phone number; the scammers are trying to get their intended victims to call a Utah number, when in fact, GTE Federal Credit Union is headquartered in Tampa, FL.  When I called the provided number, 801-807-0323, it forwarded to another phone number, 515-414-6098 (an Ogden, Iowa number), and I received a standard generic voicemail prompt to leave a message.

From: GTE Federal Credit Union, [mailto:notice@gtefcu.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: Security Notice!

GTE Federal Credit Union

Dear Customer,This communication was sent to safeguard your account against any unauthorized activity.

GTE Federal Credit Union regret to inform you that we have received numerous fraudulent emails which ask for personal account information.

The emails contained links to fraudulent pages that looked legit.
Please remember that we will never ask for personal account information via email or web pages.
Because of this we are launching a new security system to make GTE FCU accounts more secure and safe.
To take advantage of our new consumer Identity Theft Protection Program we had to deactivate access to your card account.

To activate it please call us immediately at (801) 807-0323

Activation is free of charge and will take place as soon as you finish the activation process.


Note:
* If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your ISP
* For security reasons, we will record your ip address, the date and time.
* Deliberate wrong imputs are criminally pursued and indicted.

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