E-mail Fraud & Phishing

Phishing is a form of fraud that uses an authentic-looking e-mail to convince people to send their credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security numbers, passwords, and other confidential and private information to an unknown person.

Here are a few tips on how to make it more difficult for fraud artists to target you:

• Never send confidential or financial information in an e-mail message.
• Don't click on Web links in suspicious e-mails.
• Never enter confidential or financial information in an online form that you accessed from a Web link in a suspicious e-mail.
• Don't trust that a message is from whom it appears to be from. The "From" address in an e-mail message is easily forged.
• If you receive an e-mail asking for private or confidential information, contact the company that the message appears to be from to confirm authenticity.