Bank of America customers who have received the "Bank Of America New Email Notification For Review" email alert below, which claims the recipients need to verify their accounts, are asked to delete the same email. This is because the email is a phishing scam being sent by scammers or cybercriminals, to trick their potential victims into disclosing their Bank of America's account credentials, and their personal and financial information.
The "Bank Of America New Email Notification For Review" Scam
From: secure@max.com
To: secure@max.com
Sent: 6/4/2018 10:46:45 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Bank Of America New Email Notification For Review
Bank of America
Customer Email ID: 000-97-89444-PSI
Dear Member, for the safety and integrity of Bank of America, we have issued this alert message.
A new law obliges Bank of America to act with more honesty and integrity, due skill, care and diligence to co-operate with Federal Reserve System and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud on customers which adversely affect the “prudential standing” of bank accounts.
Here’s what you need to do
Simply follow the steps below to verify your account as we take your security very seriously.
Sign on to get started
and follow prompted instructions, once completed Bank of America will unauthourize any fraudulent access to your acccount.
We value our relationship with you and thank you for choosing Bank of America.
Sincerely,
Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender
© 2018 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.
Once scammers or cybercrimes have gotten their potential victims' Bank of America information, they will use it to steal their money and use their accounts to commit fraud. Therefore, if you have received messages appearing as if they came from the Bank of America, asking you to call a number or respond to them with your personal or financial information, please do not follow the instructions in the messages and report them to the Bank of America. Always go directly to www.bankofamerica.com and sign into your account. Once you have signed in, you will be notified of changes or updates to your account.
If you were tricked into following instructions in a fake Bank of America or BofA message, please contact the Bank of America for help using the telephone number on the back of your credit or debit card. Let them know that you were ticked by cyber criminals into submitting your account information on a phishing website.