[Treasury-News] ALERT - False Email from "Electronic Payments Association"

[Brady Coy]

Treasury has received word that some State agency staff has recently received phishing e-mails that appear to be from NACHA or The Electronic Payments Association, regarding a rejected ACH transaction.  A link is included in the e-mail.

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.

Be alert for different variations of fraudulent emails.

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From: payments at nacha.org<mailto:payments at nacha.org> [mailto:payments at 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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If you have any questions regarding this, feel free to contact Brady Coy at 503-378-2457.

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