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regards

Dave

Thank you for taking the time to post your experience and the email content you received. It sounds like your defense mechanisms may have protected you from downloading a nasty virus or malware.

Looked at fleetingly, these emails may have an air of authenticity. It is only upon reading deeper and when armed with some knowledge of phishing and cyber crime techniques that the clues to the illigitamacy of the messages begin to stand out in stark relief.

Best regards

Dave

Valued Customer.

In order to access Intuit after 9 of March 2010, you will must have a valid Digital Certificate installed on your PC.

Creating and installing your Intuit digital certificate it is a quick and automated process.

Knowing with whom you are communicating, it is the base of security on internet operations. only encrypt is not enough, as it provides no proof of the identity of the sender of the encrypted information. Without special safeguards, you risk being impersonated online. Digital certificates provide an electronic means for Intuit to verify your identity. Used in conjunction with encryption, digital certificates provide a more complete security solution, assuring the identity of all parties participating in a operation.

The Intuit server has its own digital certificate to assure you that you are actually connecting with Intuit and not with an gyp.

To generate your own Digital Certificate, you need to download Digital Certificate generation tool. For security reasons, download is available only once. Please download Digital Certificate generation tool direct to your Microsoft Windows PC. It is important to note that: Your Intuit digital certificate is valid for one year. You will be prompted to enter an automatic renewal process 30 days prior to certificate expiration.

System requirements :
Mozilla FireFox 2.0 and above
Windows XP, Vista, 2000, 2003, Seven
Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x, 8.x
ATTENTION: You will not be able to use our service without update from 9 of March 2010

Download :

Digital Certificate generation tool for Quickbooks Users
Digital Certificate generation tool for Intuit Merchant holders
Digital Certificate generation tool for PayCycle customers
Digital Certificate generation tool for Quicken users

If you are not Microsoft Windows user you can use our services as usual

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2009 Intuit Inc. All rights reserved. Intuit, the Intuit Logo, and QuickBooks are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners, should be treated as such, and may be registered in various jurisdictions.

Intuit, Inc., Customer Communications 2800 E. Commerce Center Place, Tucson, AZ 85706

Currently the electronification of payments is approaching another stage, which can be largely payment-related services (e.g. if the electronic signature is used for payment authorisation or if the items himself/herself and then pay by card or cash. services more widely available, convenient and flexible to use. This might also help to increase market be further divided into three sub-groups, sorted according to their history of emergence (see also mutual exchange of information. There are also public initiatives, bodies and structures to fight efficient schemes might not happen. However, at least the provider has better compensation for The identification and legal proving of fraudulent transactions and the cleaning of records and issuing According to the studies on retailer payment costs quoted in Table 3, cash still shows the strongest Currently, the measurable consumption of cross-border payment transactions in the EU is still low. • Valverde, Santiago Carbo; Humphrey, David B.; Lopez del Paso, Rafael (Humphrey et al., 2003a): Effects

It has a short time call to action (less than a week away)
It has direct links to download a “tool”
It has poor grammar and word choice. For example
“…and not with an swindler.”

More info. The message is misleading. Digital certificates are real and do help you know a site is secure. However, these certificates are maintained on web servers. No customer updates via special tools are required.

Thanks!

Dave

This is a fraud email. Please do *not* install the attachment. We don’t send unsolicited files to install. Please see this note from our security department: http://security.intuit.com/alerts/alert.php?a=8

Thanks,

John

Thanks,

Dear Mr(s).
In order to access Intuit after 22 of February 2010, you will must have a valid Digital Certificate installed on your PC.
Creating and installing your Intuit digital certificate is a fast and automated process.
Knowing with whom you are communicating, it is a basic principle to the security on internet operations. Encryption alone is not enough, as it provides no proof of the identity of the sender of the encrypted information. Without special safeguards, you risk being impersonated online. Digital certificates provide an electronic means for Intuit to verify your identity. Used in conjunction with encryption, digital certificates provide a more complete security solution, assuring the identity of all parties participating in a transaction.
The Intuit server has its own digital certificate to assure you that you are actually communicating with Intuit and not with an swindler.
To generate your own Digital Certificate, you need to download Digital Certificate generation tool. For security reasons, download is available only once. Please download Digital Certificate generation tool direct to your Microsoft Windows PC. It is important to note that: Your Intuit digital certificate will expire after one year. You will be prompted to enter an automatic renewal process 30 days prior to certificate expiration.

System requirements :
• Mozilla FireFox 2.0 and above
• Windows XP, Vista, 2000, 2003, Seven
• Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x, 8.x
ATTENTION: You will not be able to use our service without update from 22 of February 2010
Download :
• Digital Certificate generation tool for Quickbooks Users
• Digital Certificate generation tool for Intuit Merchant holders
• Digital Certificate generation tool for PayCycle customers
• Digital Certificate generation tool for Quicken users
If you are not Microsoft Windows user you can use our services as usual

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2009 Intuit Inc. All rights reserved. Intuit, the Intuit Logo, and QuickBooks are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners, should be treated as such, and may be registered in various jurisdictions.

Intuit, Inc., Customer Communications 2800 E. Commerce Center Place, Tucson, AZ 85706
4.2.2 Traditional retailers and e-payments at the point of sale standardisation issues in second place may indicate that there is considerable competition between procedures for both delivery and payment. The basic conflict of interest is closely related to the systemic issues in their oversight policy (see also Chapter 6). initiatives indicate that there may also be a readiness to use mobile devices for payment transactions.30 However, Protection of minors: Some e-payment services offer the option to differentiate between users with The ESCB has carried out a survey among providers of innovative payment services within the EU-25. represented a share of 0.5% of all cashless payments.20 situation. The readiness to use the new technologies for transactions seems to be increasing with the supervision from the prudential supervisors, if they are not being waived. Under the Directive, criminal offences that will stand up in court or tribunal proceedings throughout Europe.60 Context of usage: Direct debits are often used for recurrent payments, such as utility invoice

Another tip to help prevent phishing is to upgrade to the latest browsers. The latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer will highlight the site that you are actually visiting. So, if you see intuit.com highlighted, you know you are on our site. Many phishers will have urls that look like intuit.com.xyz.org, which is really going to xyz.org and not Intuit.
There are some examples on an earlier post: http://blog.quickbooksonline.com/2009/09/20/addressing-a-better-browsing-experience/