Warning!

 So there I was, doing the electronic version of walking down to the mailbox, and I got an email in the old ebox that read:

A‏c‏t‏i‏o‏n‏ r‏e‏q‏u‏i‏r‏e‏d‏

I‏n‏ a‏ r‏e‏c‏e‏n‏t‏ s‏e‏c‏u‏r‏i‏t‏y‏ r‏e‏v‏i‏e‏w‏,‏ o‏u‏r‏ s‏y‏s‏t‏e‏m‏ d‏e‏t‏e‏c‏t‏e‏d‏ s‏o‏m‏e‏ u‏n‏u‏s‏u‏a‏l‏ a‏c‏t‏i‏v‏i‏t‏y‏ o‏n‏ y‏o‏u‏r‏ l‏a‏s‏t‏ p‏a‏y‏m‏e‏n‏t‏s‏.‏

A‏s‏ a‏ s‏e‏c‏u‏r‏i‏t‏y‏ p‏r‏e‏c‏a‏u‏t‏i‏o‏n‏,‏ a‏l‏l‏ y‏o‏u‏r‏ p‏a‏y‏m‏e‏n‏t‏s‏ h‏a‏s‏ b‏e‏e‏n‏ p‏u‏t‏ o‏n‏ h‏o‏l‏d‏ u‏n‏t‏i‏l‏ w‏e‏ h‏e‏a‏r‏ f‏r‏o‏m‏ y‏o‏u‏.‏

M‏y‏ A‏c‏c‏o‏u‏n‏t‏

I‏f‏ t‏h‏i‏s‏ i‏s‏s‏u‏e‏ i‏s‏ n‏o‏t‏ r‏e‏s‏o‏l‏v‏e‏d‏,‏ y‏o‏u‏r‏ a‏c‏c‏o‏u‏n‏t‏ m‏a‏y‏ b‏e‏ s‏u‏s‏p‏e‏n‏d‏e‏d‏ a‏n‏y‏ t‏i‏m‏e‏ w‏i‏t‏h‏o‏u‏t‏ n‏o‏t‏i‏c‏e‏.‏

T‏h‏a‏n‏k‏ y‏o‏u‏ f‏o‏r‏ c‏h‏o‏o‏s‏i‏n‏g‏ W‏e‏l‏l‏s‏ F‏a‏r‏g‏o

Well, now, any activity on my account should be regarded as unusual, because the last time I had anything to do with Wells Fargo was watching "Tales of Wells Fargo" on NBC when I was a kid. They had 201 episodes; the show ran from 1957 - 1962.

 

The only other time I remember hearing about that outfit was when their reputation was scarred by scandal:  Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiary, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., have agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve their potential criminal and civil liability stemming from a practice between 2002 and 2016 of pressuring employees to meet unrealistic sales goals that led thousands of employees to provide millions of accounts or products to customers under false pretenses or without consent, often by creating false records or misusing customers’ identities, the Department of Justice announced today. (February 21, 2020)

So the thought that I would involve my vast fortune (estimated at well over a million pesos) with these crooks is laughable. And I don't know if they are the ones sending these alarming emails - it even had a red exclamation point!  - to people at large, hoping to trick them into revealing their banking, social security, and driver's license information, but they're treeing up the wrong bark with me.

All my loot is with the credit union. Crimefighters' tip: join a credit union that has hundreds of police officers among its depositors in line to do their bank stuff. It will never be held up.

‏And I would NEVER do business with a bank that said "all your payments has been held up" (sic). So there.