The December 24, 2003 article says:
Tumbleweed and the Anti-Phishing Working Group estimate that more than 60 million e-mail scam messages have been sent in the last two weeks and seek to take advantage of confusion and increased online transactions during the holiday season.
On average, 5 percent of recipients responded to the scam e-mail, Tumbleweed says.
At 11:10 AM 1/2/2004, you wrote:
I wonder how many people will actually fall for this:
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<body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF" text=3D"#000000"> <DIV>Dear Citibank Member,</DIV= > <DIV><BR>This email was sent by the Citibank server to verify your E-mail<B= R>address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link<BR>below = and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM/Debit<BR>Card number and= PIN that you use on ATM.<BR>This is done for your protection -- because so= me of our members<BR>no longer have access to their email addresses and we = must<BR>verify it.</DIV> <DIV><BR>To verify your E-mail address and access your bank account,<BR>cli= ck on the link below:</DIV> <DIV><BR><A href=3D"http://65.246.58.14/baluci/scripts/email_verify.htm";>ht= tps://web.da-us.citibank.com/signin/citifi/scripts/email_verify.jsp</A></DI= V> <DIV><BR>-----------------------------</DIV> <DIV>Thank you for using Citibank</DIV> <DIV>-----------------------------</DIV> </body> --=_579b51922d72e436946615fa16088dbb--
John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You
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