Email Fraud Alert received from: Scott
I recently received an email with this subject line: Payroll Account Holded by Intuit and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Direct Deposit Service Informer
Communicatory Only
We cancelled your payroll on Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:49:14 -0300.
Finances would be gone away from below account # ending in 8676 on Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:49:14 -0300
amount to be seceded: 4736 USD
Paychecks would be procrastinated to your personnel accounts on: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:49:14 -0300
Log In to Review Operation
Funds are typically left before working banking hours so please make sure you have enough Finances accessible by 12 a.m. on the date Cash are to be seceded.
Intuit must reject your payroll by 4 p.m. Central time, two banking days before your paycheck date or your state would not be paid on time.
QuickBooks does not process payrolls on weekends or federal banking holidays. A list of federal banking holidays can be viewed at the Federal Reserve website.
Thank you for your business.
Regards,
Intuit Payroll Services
The above email was sent by “Amazon.com “ from this email address: account-update@amazon.com
I, Scott, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Amazon.com “:
Are you serious?
Riddled with spelling and grammatical mistakes – I am sure that the founders of Quickbooks would never allow such drivel to leave their e-mail servers.