Lena wrote:
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It's snafus like these that make me keep away from opening
an online account with no official paper trail.

Anoop

Elle wrote:
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I believe it was legitimate. Later in the evening, I got another email
from them acknowledging the error with an "apology" for the mix-up.

Thanks for confirming that I was not alone.

Lena

Lena, yes I received this email and a buncha replies to it
today. IIRC it had no link; just a direction to go log in
and check that one's info was current. So it might be a
legitimate suggestion. OTOH, having the email set up so that
customers' automatic email answering services fire back an
email to the whole email list is IMO a tip-off of either (1)
the illegitimacy of the first email or (2) that our friends
running the Treasury Direct web operations are still getting
up to speed on efficient management of the site. I will
happily be cashing in my remaining savings bonds with TD in
2007.

Lena wrote:
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You were probably a victim of "phishing". Check the original
email and the actual link that it asked you to visit.
http://onguardonline.gov/phishing.html

Anoop

Did any other acount holders get an email from Treasury Direct asking
to update your email and home addresses and phone number, and then get
a bunch of replies to that email from other recipients?

Someone at Treasury Direct claimed it was a server error. Still
wondering why "Jane Doe's", "John Smith's" and "Barney Fife's" response
to that email was sent to me.

Lena