Alexandria, Va — The NCUA issued a fraud alert for all federally-insured credit unions about a recent phishing attempt to obtain credit card account numbers and expiration dates.

In reported cases, e-mails were sent to credit union members and to the general public stating that the, “National Credit Union Administration temporarily suspended your account due to fraud attempts.” The e-mail then requests a call be made to a toll free number provided to reactivate the account. The phone number to call has an Albany area code of 518.

The alert states that the NCUA does not ask credit union members or the general public for such information and anyone who receives an e-mail from the NCUA asking for account information should consider it as a fraudulent attempt to obtain their account information.

It is suggested that credit union management inform their employees of the e-mail so they can assist in identification of such activity.