FirstLight Federal Credit Union is completely committed to protecting your financial information and security.
Recent phishing scams:
Debit Card Call: Some of our members have received a phone call from someone claiming to be from FirstLight FCU inquiring about their personal account information. They are asking for debit card information by asking the member to give the card number and press 1 to activate. THIS IS A SCAM PHONE CALL. This number has been identified for this scam: 626-315-6100. Please do not provide any of the information that they ask for and hang up immediately.
Remember that FirstLight will never call, text, or email you asking for any your personal account information.
If you have responded to any of these scam phone calls, text messages, or emails, please call FirstLight immediately.
Malicious Software Distributed in bin Laden Photos
Please be advised of this risk communicated to us by CUNA. I know our curiosity sometimes gets the best of us, but do not open any emails with this topic.
May 6, 2011
Summary
The FBI has issued a warning about phishing emails allegedly showing photos and videos of Osama bin Laden's recent death. President Obama decided not to release the photos of bin Laden's corpse. The content of the messages could be malware that can spread to the recipient's contact list, thus sending the fraudulent email to everyone in the contact list.
Risk Type: Other
State(s): All States
Related Product: Bond
Risk Mitigation Recommendations
Details:
The FBI has issued a warning about phishing emails allegedly showing photos and videos of Osama bin Laden's recent corpse. President Obama decided not to release the photos of bin Laden's death. The content of the messages could be malware that can spread to the recipient's contact list, thus sending the fraudulent email to everyone in the contact list. The malware could be programmed to steal personally identifiable information.
Risk Mitigation Recommendations:
Credit unions should consider the following risk mitigation tips:
• Alert employees to exercise caution when receiving unsolicited emails, including messages received from people known to the employee. Employees should be instructed not to open attachments or click on links contained in suspicious email and they should not download any photos and videos, including software to view videos, allegedly showing bin Laden's death.
• Credit unions with social networking sites should take measures necessary to prevent 'friends' from posting content to the website. The website should be monitored for any suspicious postings, including links to other websites.
• Credit unions with a fraud alert email service set up for members should send an alert to members warning them of this method of spreading malware.
Members are receiving this text message: "FIRSTLIGHT F.C.U. ALERT: Your CARD has been DEACTIVATED. Please contact us at 915-603-4858." <--This is a FALSE message. Please Do NOT reply.
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