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  by David Jansen
 
It's just a short letter with the only purpose for you to click on the link. In this case with my Fastmail account the url is disabled and replaced with a warning. Also note the sender's email address which is an yahoo account while Wells Fargo has it's own domain with their email addresses ending with @wellsfargo.com.
You have a new message

From:
"Wells Fargo" <[email protected]> [Add]
To:

Date:
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 3:47 PM (5 hours 45 mins ago)


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From: Wells Fargo<[email protected]>
Subject: You have a new message
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:47:52 -0600
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You have a new message from Wells Fargo.

For your protection please follow the link below to view this message securely on Wells Fargo site:

FastMail.FM WARNING: URL text and host don't match, possible phishing attempt. URL disabled. Original URL='http://wells4u.4t.com/alert.htm'. Original text='<FONT color=#0000FF><U>https://online.wellsfargo.com/das/newmsg</U></FONT>'. For more information on phishing click here.