Farmington New Hampshire Police Department

-The department has received a information of a suspicious email being received by citizens which appeared to have been sent by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
 
-The FDIC is advising that they have received numerous reports of fraudulent emails that appear to have been sent by them.
 
-While the emails exhibit variations in the ‘”From” and “Subject” lines, the messages are similar.  They notify the recipient that their ACH and Wire transactions have been temporarily suspended for security reasons.  The recipient is then directed to a hyper link to download the latest program.
 
– The email and link are fraudulent. Recipients should consider the intent of this e-mail as an attempt to collect personal or confidential information, or to load malicious software onto end users’ computers. Recipients should not click on the link provided. 
 
– The FDIC does not issue unsolicited emails to customers or business account holders.

  It is nearly impossible to identify the source of these e-mails or they originate outside of the US; therefore,  it is extremely difficult for law enforcement agencies to investigate these scams.  Citizens should beware and not provide any personal information or click on any link where the identity of the sender is questionable.