M>> By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | December 29, 2006>
> If someone tries to log in from a machine that isn't fingerprinted,
> the bank will send a confirmation message to the customer's e-mail
> address. A crook who's stolen somebody's user name and password
> probably won't have access to the victim's e-mail account, so he can't
> reply to the message, and won't be allowed to log in
I get several fraudulent e-mails a week purporting to be from either of the two banks I do business with. Most of the time I delete them immediately without opening them. If your bank really has something to tell you, they will normally send a message that you have a message on their secure message site (and do not even specify the URL, so you have to know how to log on already).
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com