Below is text received in an email to one of our staff members. This is DEFINITELY a scam! Please remember that Millstream Area Credit Union will never ask nor give your personal, non- public information via the internet or email correspondence.

From: SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT

Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:10 AM

To: undisclosed-recipients

Subject: ATM CARD PAYMENT

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Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB

Your Ref: SNT/ATM/822

This is to officially inform you that ATM card number: 8764 3487 0612 8929 worth Six million three hundred thousand USD ($6.3million) has been credited to your favor. This is in bid to compensate you on your contract payment since you are next on our contract payment file for the Year 2009.

With due respect, we need to verify your data by cross referencing with our data base to be sure that you are the rightful beneficiary of this contract / inheritance funds. All legal papers will be processed pending when you provide the below data for verification and claims; FULL NAME, NEXT OF KIN, COUNTRY, DELIVERY ADDRESS, OCCUPATION, PHONE NUMBER, AGE, SEX These should be forwarded to the desk of the verification officer;

Name: LINDA BRUCE (Mrs.)

Email: atmcard_lindabruce@9.cn

Phone Number: +234_8134-5309-08

Furthermore, you are advice to provide a scan copy of identification. This must be one of the following;

* International Passport

* Driver's License

* Recent utility bill payment

* Others (Identity Card)

Respond to this message as soon as possible.

REGARDS

LINDA BRUCE

Please be advised that Chase Bank does not endorse these types of messages. Your financial institution will never ask for your non public, personal information. Chase Bank has been notified of email receipt and are taking steps to discontinue this type of message. Please do not attempt to email Chase Bank via the link provided below; this is a phishing attempt and that email link may not be a valid member of the Chase Bank Team.

Once the link is clicked on, it takes you to a variety of alleged security screens and attempts to gather further information from you. Please do not fall for this.

From: Chase Online [mailto:generatednotify.id458-2548580235cb@chase.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:50 PM
Subject: Please confirm your details

Note: This is a service message regarding the Chase Online Form.

Dear customer:

As part of the new security measures, all Chase bank customers are required to complete Chase Online Form. Please complete the form as soon as possible.

To access the form please click on the following link:

Chase Online Form

Thank you for being a valued customer.

Sincerely,

Online Banking Team

CLEARINGHOUSE SCAM

We received the following email from the FBI regarding a new scam that has hit close to home! Be cautious, criminals are getting more and more convincing and anyone could become a victim.

What should you be watching for? Throughout the following email, see if you can identify obvious indications that this is most likely a scam.

Amongst other indicators, these are the most prevelant. Please be cautious when receiving these types of emails. If you do receive this type of email you may notify the Credit Union to post it on our website and warn other's in the community of recent scam attempts!

Fraudsters are constantly trying to impersonate government agency's or officials in order to steal financial information. At Millstream Area Credit Union, it is our goal to inform the community of these scams before anyone becomes a vicitim. Please see the fraudulent email below.

*Note the gramatical and spelling errors throughout the email. This is a big tip-off that it is a scam.


From: Federal Bureau of Investigation. [mailto:Info@fbi.com]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 3:40 AM
Subject: SPAM - Attn: Beneficiary.

Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crime Division.

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

J.Edgar Hoover Building Washington Dc

Attn: Beneficiary.

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our noticed and weve thoroughly investigated with the helped of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you're having an illegal Transactions with all these Impostors claiming to be
1) Prof. Charles soludo

2) Senator David Mark

3) Barrister C. Adams

4) Rev. John Aboh

5) EFCC Chairman

6) Copper George John

7) Mr. Jim Ovia

8) Oceanic Bank

9) Zenith Bank, CBN.

10) Mr.Tunde Lemo

11) Prof. Sansui Lamido

ETC

There are Puppy Scam impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you've not received your payment is because you've not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

So therefore, we've contacted the Federal Ministry of Finance on your behalf and they've brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total of USD$800,000.00 in an ATM CARD which you use to withdraw money anywhere in the world. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, youve to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $150.00 only and note that your Approval Slip contains details of the agent whom will process your transaction.

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: MR. ARTHUR R. LEIGH II
EMAIL: arthurrleighii@aol.com

Do contact MR. ARTHUR R. LEIGH II of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:

So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment informations which you'll use in making the payment of $150.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.

We order you to get back to this office after you've contact with the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.
Thanks and hope to read from you soon...

FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III.

fbiantiterroristandmonitorycrimedivision@live.com

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possessions of your ATM CARD, youre hereby advised only to be in contact with MR. ARTHUR R. LEIGH II of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.