Often, the link in the email will not match up with the URL of the site it takes you to as shown in our example on the right shows a fake URL address of http://213.215.170.....

It will ask for sensitive personal information that is never needed to make a credit card purchase on our website such as in the example on the right that asks for Social Security Number, Mother's Maiden Name and Date of Birth.

How can you tell if you are on a real Announcingit Website? 

Legitimate Announcingit Web Addresses
To determine if the Web address in your browser is a real Announcingit address, look for "Announcingit.com" immediately before the first "/" as http://www.announcingit.com/ and as shown in the examples below.

Real Announcingit Address:
http://www.announcingit.com/Assistance/My_Account.asp

http://www.announcingit.com/Invitations/Party_Invitations.htm

Contains the announcingit.com before the first "/"