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‘Your Citi Credit Card Statement’ - Email Alert

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Good morning and Happy Wednesday!

If you’re just sorting through your Email inbox and you notice an outrageous looking Citi Credit Card bill demanding a minimum payment of $1,000.00 or above, keep your cool! The message has a subject line of ‘Your Citi Credit Card Statement‘ and while it might seem like a legitimate Email message, it isn’t.

Beware Of This Hoax Email Message

The full text of the message reads:

Add [email protected] to your address book to ensure delivery.

Your Account: Important Notification

Your Citi Credit Card statement is ready to view online

Dear Cardholder,

Your Citi Credit Card statement is now available for you to view online. Here are some key pieces of information from your statement:

Statement Date: July 12, 2012
Statement Balance: $2434.94
Minimum Payment Due: $1104.88
Payment Due Date: July 15, 2012
Want help remembering your payment due date? Sign up for automated alerts such as Payment Due reminders with Alerting Service.

To set up alerts sign on to www.citicards.com and go to Account Profile.

I prefer not to have this email contain specific information from my statement. Please send me just the announcement that my statement is ready to view online.

Privacy | Security
Email Preferences
This message is from Citi Cards. Your credit card is issued by Citibank, N.A. If you’d like to refine the types of email messages you receive, or if you’d prefer to stop receiving email from us, please go to: http://www.email.citicards.com. Citibank manages email preferences by line of business. Changing your email preferences with Citi Cards does not change your email preferences for messages from Citibank’s other businesses which include retail branch banking among others.

Should you want to contact us in writing concerning this email, please direct your correspondence to:

Citibank Customer Service
P. O. Box 6500
Sioux Falls, SD 57117

Help / Contact Us
If you have questions about your account, please use our secure message center by signing on at www.citicards.com and choosing “Contact Us” from the “Help / Contact Us” menu. You can also call the customer service phone number on the back of your card.

© 2012 Citibank, N.A.
All rights reserved.
Citi, Citibank and Citi with Arc Design are registered service marks of Citigroup Inc.

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In all, the sender provides seven bogus links that all resolve to an IP address that aren’t associated with Citibank, so be sure not to click on any of these and delete this message immediately to avoid any complications that could arise due to viruses or other malicious code.

I hope you found this post helpful and that you’re relieved to find that you don’t really have to pay over $1,000.00 to Citibank by Sunday! If so, I kindly ask that you share this with your friends and family in hopes that they don’t fall for this manipulative Email message.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!