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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

A Reminder about Fraud Email

Posted on 07:41 by Unknown
On Friday, June 12, around 1:00 p.m. CST, you may have received an email that looked like it was sent from the AALAS national office, but it wasn't. The fraudulent email included a picture of the AALAS office, from the AALAS website, and included the following wording:

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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE !

Dear Joe Smith

During to one of our regular automatical verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your account. This might be due to an innability to accurately verify your selected options of subscription or due to the recent modifications made in our database. We are urgently asking you to submit your information so that we could fully verify your identity. If your account informations are not updated within the next 12 hours your access to aalas.org will be restricted until you pass verification process.

To submit your information please click here.

We are sorry for any incovenience this email may cause, and we appreciate your cooperation.

Please do not reply to this e-mail.
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Please note that this is a phishing scam email that is asking you to log into a website that appears identical to the AALAS website. This email did not originate from the AALAS national office and should be deleted immediately.

If you have logged into the fake site, please change your AALAS password at www.aalas.org. But first, clear out your browser's internet cache, history, cookies, etc. to prevent the fake website address from reappearing in your browser, and you can start fresh by manually entering www.aalas.org.

If you provided credit card information on this phishing site, please cancel your credit card immediately.

AALAS will never send an unsolicited email asking you to confirm or change your username or password, nor will AALAS ask you to verify any information over the Internet by asking for your credit card information. The only time credit card information is required is when you are making an online purchase from AALAS.

Please be assured that AALAS is devoted to protecting your personal information and we take this situation seriously.
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