Beware fraudulent email from FDIC

Subject: E-mail Claiming to Be From the FDIC ("check your Bank Deposit Insurance Coverage")

At the request of the U.S. Treasury, we are distributing the following information. Please distribute this information throughout your organizations and communication channels. Thank you.

The FDIC issued Special Alert (SA-183-2009 ) today regarding a fraudulent e-mail claiming to be from the FDIC. We have received hundreds of reports of this e-mail. We are told by researchers that it is being very widely distributed. See:

http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2009/10/fake-fdic-spam-campaign-spreads-ze

us.html for samples.

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If you receive an email that claims to be from the FDIC or asks you to “check your Bank Deposit Insurance Coverage” - delete it and do not respond to it.