New wave of 'Citibank' fraudulent emails arrives

Found on The Inquirer on Sunday, 11 January 2004
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A spurious mail claiming to be from Citibank has started appearing in inboxes everywhere, again.

The emal purporting to be from the bank, claims that Citibank had to block accounts because of "money laundering, credit card fraud, terrorism and check fraud activity".

Also, over the weekend, a rash of other fraudulent emals purporting to be from Paypal and Barclays started tipping up in inboxes.

I wouldn't usually post spam/fraud mails here, but this one I received deserves to be mentioned:
Dear Citibank Cardholders,

This e-mail was ssent by the Citi-Bank servers to veerify your email
adderss. You must cloetmpe this poscres by clicking on the link
below and enteering in the smmall window your Citi-bank Debit
full Card nummber and Card Pin that you use on local Atm.
This is done for your pocrettion -V- becouse some of our members no
loengr have acescs to their email adessreds and we must verify it.

To veerify your e-mail address and akcess your Citi account, klick on
the link beloow. If ntohing hapneps when you clic on the link -1 copye
and paste the link into the adderss bar of your window.
Good thing there are effective scam blockers called "grammar" and "orthography" around.