SO I’ve finally received my first email purporting to be a bank and requesting that I confirm my details…here it is…and the link takes you here
Chase Bank Account Review Department.
Dear customer,
During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your billing information.
This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address,e-mail address).
2. An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal error within our processors.
Please click the link below to update your account . If the link isn’t clickable, please copy the entire link, paste it into your Web browser’s address bar and press “Enter” on your keyboard.
https://chaseonline.chase.com/online/sso_logon.jsp
We are requesting this information to verify and protect your identity. This is in order
to prevent the use of the U.S. banking system in illegal activity.
Please do not “Reply” to this Alert.
At Chase Bank we are always ready to help you. Whether you need account assistance, product information or answers to financial questions we are here for you. Send us an email, call or write us. You may also try our online help files.
Email us at: customers@chase.com
Call us at: 1-800-772-1090 or other Customer Service Numbers.
Write us at: Chase Bank, 850 Main Street, 11th Floor, Bridgeport, CT 06604, Attn: Customer Service
2006 Chase Bank. Member FDIC.Financial Group. All rights reserved.
You have to feel sorry for the people who fall for this kind of thing…
It’s pretty darn good… the linky is to http://chaseonline.chase.com.client-update.net/ – most people wouldn’t realise this is owned by client-update.net…
Yep…they even masked that link with one that looks authentic. Although you have to admire thoroughness, I did report the fokkers to Chase.
You have to be carefully following links like that – thats how spammers get your email address!
Well, sumthin’ tells me they already had it…given it was in my hotmail inbox…
PErhaps, usually spammers will send blanket emails to random email address, or random combinations of letters and words at popular email/webmail servers. When you respond to an email through a link, they ‘know’ the account is active, and viola, you’re on the list!