Today, Crédit Agricole announced that an e-mail claiming to be from the bank has been widely sent out over the Web since 1 March 2007.

It encourages web users who are customers of Crédit Agricole to log on to a false site and give their on-line banking codes.

In response to this attempted phishing sent from servers outside France, targeting the internet customers of Crédit Agricole, the regional banks immediately took the following measures:

• information and recommendations on their Website

• information through the sales network.

All those concerned at Crédit Agricole, and particularly the technical staff, are taking active measures to counteract this fraud.