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"American Express Irregular Activity" Phishing Scam

The "American Express Irregular Activity" email below is a scam being sent by cybercriminals to potential victims, with an attached form or HTML Web page requesting personal and financial information. American Express will never send their users an email message with an attached form or HTML Web page requesting personal, financial or account information. Therefore, American Express users are asked to delete email messages with an attached form or HTML Web page requesting the same information.

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Also, they should not follow the instructions in the phishing email messages, and if they are in doubt or uncertain about an email message that they have received, they should contact American Express Customer Support for help verifying the email message authenticity.

The "American Express Irregular Activity" Phishing Scam

From: American Express - Americanexpress@americanexcpress.com

Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 10:48 AM

To: americanexpress@welcome.aexp.com

Subject: Recent Activities.

CardMember Alert

American Express logo

In regards to Primary Cardmember

Cards

Travels

Business

As part of our commitment to help keep your access secure, we have detected an irregular activity on your access and we are placing a hold on your access for your protection.

In view of this, Cardmember information needs to be updated and your mandatory effort is required.

WHAT IS REQUIRED

To proceed, An attached HTML Fillable Web Form is sent with this message.

- See Attached Information Form, Download and Open to Continue.

Thank you for your Card Membership.

American Express Customer Care

Privacy Statement

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Update Your Email

Message information is included above to help you recognize this as a customer care e-mail from American Express. We kindly ask you not to reply to this e-mail directly as messages are being sent from an unmonitored e-mail address.

© 2018 American Express. All rights reserved.

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