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An Email Account Termination Notice Scam

From: Mail Administrator - mailadmn01@gmail.com

Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 04:03:36 PM EDT

Subject: Account Deactivation Alert

SBC Global Service Announcement

Dear Valued Customer,

We received a request to terminate your SBC Global Mail account and the process has started by our Mail Team, Please give us 24 working hours to close your Account. To cancel the termination,

Please call +1-855-878-5117 (toll free) and follow the instructions.

Note : All files on your SBC Global mail account including (Inbox, Sent, Spam, Trash, Draft) will be deleted and access to your SBC Global mail account will be denied.

Thank you for using SBC GLOBAL Mail Services.

SBC GLOBAL©2020

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