Important Credit Card email!

[NutmegCT]

I thought you guys would enjoy this email I received (in my spam box) this morning. In addition to the bad grammar and misspelled words, note the last sentence: "... to combat the fraud from our community."

The attachment is an html file, which (if opened in a browser), takes you to a bogus Chase Bank page, linked to a website called "FormBuddy.com". Of course, the form asks you to enter all your Chase Bank login info.

I think I'll pass up this great opportunity ...

* * * *
Dear Customer,

We recently made some changes to online banking system. We are proactively notifying you of
this activity as our online banking customers so as to update your account information, this will
prevent account insecurities and fraud threats on our online banking system.

To get started :
DOWNLOAD THE ATTACHED FORM AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION ON YOUR SCREEN.


Please Note:
If we do no receive the appropriate account verification within 48 hours, then
we will assume this Bank account is fraudulent and will be suspended. The
purpose of this verification is to ensure that your bank account has not been
fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community.

 

[Basil]

YOu should also never click on links in in this sorts of emails lest you risk getting malware, spyware, or a virus.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Agreed...don't open any attachment from morons.
In the old days, when they made this stuff part of the message, I used to fill them all out....I had a made-up SSN, name, address, e-mail...all of it.
Did it in a proxy server so they wouldn't know who I was.
Kept the data on a slip stuck to the side of my monitor.
Lionel Barrymore, at star@hollywood.com must have not been happy.

 

[Boink]

It continues to amaze me that people MUST be responding to this sort of phishing... because it continues.

 

[NutmegCT]

It continues to amaze me that people MUST be responding to this sort of phishing... because it continues.

Same here. I know guys who get dozens of spam messages every day. All of them the typical "cheap medications", "funds waiting for you to claim", "dearest one I found you on the internet", "urgent account verification needed", etc.

I suppose if you can get a CD of millions of email addresses for $39 (or whatever), and you send each address a "get millions for only $40", you make a profit if only one sucker falls for it.

Imagine how fast spam would disappear if the sender had to pay one cent for each message. I'd agree to that myself, it everyone else had to do the same.

I'll have my team start working on it ...

Tom

 

[rkep01]

I'll have my team start working on it ...

Tom

Which one is you, Tom?