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                                Important Notice: </font>
                                <font size="2" face="Arial" color="#FFFFFF">Sept. 8, 2005</font><font color="#00A8DC" size="2" face="Arial">
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                                Dear Sir/Madam,<br>
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                                Barclays Bank PLC.
                                always look forward for the high security of our clients. Some
                                customers have been receiving an email claiming to be from
                                Barclays advising them to follow a link to what appear to be a
                                Barclays web site, where they are prompted to enter their
                                personal Online Banking details. Barclays is in no way involved
                                with this email and the web site does not belong to us.</font></p>
                                <p><font color="#003366" face="Arial" size="2">Barclays is proud
                                to announce about their new updated secure system. We updated
                                our new SSL servers to give our customers a better, fast and
                                secure online banking service.<br>
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                                Due to the recent update of the servers, you are requested to
                                please update your account info at the following link.</font></p>
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                                <a href="http://www.tropqfil.com/Barclays/"></font><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.tropqfil.com" claiming to be</b></font>
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                                http://www.barclays.co.uk/cgi-bin/accountupdate/1,00,102.html</a></font></b></p>
                                <p><font color="#003366" face="Arial" size="2"><b>*Important*</b><br>
                                We have asked few additional information which is going to be
                                the part of secure login process. These additional information
                                will be asked during your future login security so, please
                                provide all these info completely and correctly otherwise due to
                                security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.<br>
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                                <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#003366"><b>J. S.
                                Smith</b><br>
                                <i>Security Advisor<br>
                                Barclays Bank PLC.</i></font><br>
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                <p><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#808080">Please do not reply to
                this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.<br>
                For assistance, log in to your Barclays Online Bank account and choose
                the "Help" link on any page.<br>
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                Barclays Email ID # 1009</font></td>
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