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Email Update - April 28, 2008

Update: 
The fabricated website mentioned below has been shut-down. Please remember that HealthAmerica will never request personal account information from you over the internet or through email.  

Email Alert - April 23, 2008

HealthAmerica is being used as the subject of a phishing message targeting members to collect personal account information using a fabricated HealthAmerica Home Banking Site.

HealthAmerica is advising members who receive the e-mail not to click on the link to the fabricated web page and to just delete the message. 

This new phishing-scam attempt informs recipients of "unsuccessful attempts to reset your Home Banking Account Password on [date]."

The body of the fabricated email reads like this:

All Members are advised to delete this message. 
Contact Member Services at (904) 296-1292, option 5 if you have questions. 

For more information on 'phishing' and methods and practices you can take to safeguard your personal information, please see this link:   US Government's FTC page regarding Phishing: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt127.shtm

Phishing:  fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information.