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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: garry22 on May 26, 2011, 01:06:49 pm
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Got this today...
"The ACH transaction (ID: 358421190111), recently sent from your bank account (by you or any other person), was canceled by the Electronic Payments Association.
Please click here ( containing a link to a probable dodgy site) to view further information
If you have any questions or comments, contact us at info@nacha.org. Thank you for using http://www.nacha.org.
13450 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 100 Herndon, VA 20171 (703) 561-1100 "
The official NACHA site has stated it is a fraudulent / phishing e mail
"NACHA PHISHING ALERT (02/22/2011) EMAIL CLAIMING TO BE FROM NACHA
NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association has received reports that individuals and/or companies have received a fraudulent email that has the appearance of having been sent from NACHA and signed by a non-existent NACHA employee. Specifically, this email claims to be from the “Electronic Payments Association” and appears to be coming from the email address "payments@nacha.org.” See a sample of the email below.
Be aware that phishing emails frequently have attachments and/or links to Web pages that host malicious code and software. Do not open attachments or follow Web links in unsolicited emails from unknown parties or from parties with whom you do not normally communicate, or that appear to be known but are suspicious or otherwise unusual.
NACHA itself does not process nor touch the ACH transactions that flow to and from organizations and financial institutions. NACHA does not send communications to individuals or organizations about individual ACH transactions that they originate or receive.
If malicious code is detected or suspected on a computer, consult with a computer security or anti-virus specialist to remove malicious code or re-install a clean image of the computer system.
Always use anti-virus software and ensure that the virus signatures are automatically updated.
Ensure that the computer operating systems and common software applications security patches are installed and current.
Additional information and guidance on phishing is available from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Be alert for different variations of fraudulent emails.
= = = = = Sample Email = = = = = =
From:payments@nacha.org [mailto:payments@nacha.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:32 AM
To: Doe, John
Subject: ACH transaction rejected
The ACH transaction, recently sent from your checking account (by you or any other person), was cancelled by the Electronic Payments Association.
Please click here to view report
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Otto Tobin,
Risk Manager
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Had 2 recently claimimg failed bacs transations.
Theres some dodgy sods out there.
John
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For a start if you were to get anything from payments systems then for this country it would be from BACS (Bulk Automated Clearing Systems)
Not that they would bother to email you in the first place....
Rog
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Roger,
I had just received a payment from the USA, so it almost made sense at the time. Luckily I did not click the link.
As Homenclean said above. it looks like they are trying it on about BACS as well.
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Financial institutions do not send out e-mail about your specific situations.
I'm surprised people still fall for this sort of thing, granted in the early days of mass e-mails it was easy to be taken in but who is not aware these days of this sort of thing going on.