NACHA Rejected ACH Transaction Mail: A Scam
November 13th, 2009 - 10:49 pm ICT by GD ( 18 comments )By Meena Kar
Nov.13, (THAINDIAN NEWS) One more scam has started on the Internet from Thursday and aims to acquire money from people’s accounts in a fraudulent way. This time, the scam is related to a fake email with the name of “NACHA- The Electronic Payment System”. Sources state that the some cyber thieves send emails to different people with the subject ‘Rejected ACH Transaction’. The recipients of the mail are directed to click a link that will give them the reports of the transactions that could not be completed. Most of the anti-virus used these days cannot trace this malware and so it is easy to trick people with these mails. Reports state hat only sixteen anti-virus softwares have detected the report in the mail as malicious and prevented people to become a victim of this scam.
Experts have started to work on this scam mail and more than thirty false websites of NACHA were tracked down by the Alabama University researchers. Officials of NACHA have warned people to ignore such emails and not to click on the link as it may contain the virus or malware.
According to the sources, common internet users will not pay much attention to the mail as they do not have to deal with ACH transactions. It has been stated that the mastermind behind this scam generally targets business organizations as the ACH transaction is quite important for business deals. The link that is embedded in the mail directs people to a fake website of NACHA, which provide people with false reports of transaction. These reports contain a copy of the malware ‘Zeus/Zbot’ that can swindle bank accounts. Sources state that this malware has earlier exploited many companies.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
It’s still making the rounds. I just got one today 7/22/2010
February 22nd, 2011 at 11:32 pm
got one 2-22-2011
February 24th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
rec’d one today 2/24/2011
February 24th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
I rec’d 1 2/23/11 and 2 2/24/11 all from different people. It was caught by forticlient software.
March 30th, 2011 at 12:51 am
It’s stil out there. Though I do not run Java, is my machine still safe?
March 30th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Got hit today. Don’t have Java on my machine, am I still clean?
April 5th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Its still out there as of 04/05/2011.
April 5th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Received one today! Thought about clicking it for a second and then realized what a bad idea that was. Beware, still making the rounds…
April 6th, 2011 at 1:28 am
Just got this one again today and once last week. Still out there!
August 31st, 2011 at 10:15 am
i got one, but its not a link, it looks like a .pdf file,but it has a .exe extension as well.
Yes, like an ass - i clicked it and the file disappeared, wow i screwed up, so I’m now running Ad-ware to hunt it down, i do hope it finds it.
file:
Sender:
Lets see what happens.
August 31st, 2011 at 10:21 am
for some reason, when the message was posted the file & sender names where blanked out ?
here go’s again:
file: report_082011-65.pdf.exe
from: notify847ivowa@nacha.gov
August 31st, 2011 at 7:17 pm
I got it today too.tricky as I am expecting a direct deposit. A couple red flags 1 it ended in my yahoo bulk folder and 2 it was sent to a long list of ppl yet only referenced 1 transaction number. Glad to find this and verify it’s 100% scam. Thanks 8/31/11
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:44 am
Yahoo put this NACHA email into my spam folder and so I didn’t open it but it is still going strong. Sick of viruses. They have cost me a lot of money getting my computers rebooted.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:03 am
I just got this in my regular mail, but the idiots put about thirty recipients in the To: box, so I knew immediately it was a scam. I put this domain on my blocked senders list, so it should always go to my Junk email file from now on.
October 26th, 2011 at 1:36 am
I got it today, Oct 25, 2011.
November 29th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
I got one today. This is very upsetting. Why is it so hard to stop these scammers?
December 13th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Received one on 12/9.I opened it since I do have an ACH transfer due on the same day. My husband received one 12/12 with a different ID number.
December 17th, 2011 at 5:40 am
Just got one today, ended up in my SPAM folder. Thank you webroot for protection.