Chase Bank - Fake or what?

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Subject: CHASE Bank - Multiple Password Failures

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:44:52 -0500

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Dear CHASE bank Member ,

CHASE Bank is devoted to keeping a safe environment for its community of consumers and producers. To guarantee the safety of your account, CHASE Bank deploys some of the most advanced security measures in the world and our anti-fraud units regularly screen the CHASE Bank database for suspicious activity.

We recently have discovered that multiple computers have attempted to log into your CHASE Bank Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were presented before the logons. We now require you to re-validate your account information to us. If this is not completed by January 07 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.

In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you.

Please Click Here or on the link below to verify your account

http://www.chase.com/verification/update/


Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporary suspend your account.

CHASE Bank Security Team

offending url:
http://www.erotik-basar.de/catalog/images/chase.com/chase.html made to look like chase bank web site.
pls. take note that I don't have any chase bank account but I still receive this email about thrice a week.

 

[maximum]

No need for you to personally worry, as you don't even have a Chase account. If this had been anywhere NEAR real, Chase would have known that..lol. And no bank is going to use an URL offsite anyway. Simply put, banks do not ask you to confirm anything online via email. If this had really happened (and you actually had a Chase account), Chase would have contacted you first by phone, and probably then by snail-mail. And, in the interium just put a "hold" on the account, IMMEDIATELY - not waiting till the 7th of January. This (spoofing banks) is one of the most common scams going on the net. Even Ebay accounts get broken into by the untold numbers, by internet newbies falling for this. Established sites that take security big-time serious, like Ebay and banks, don't ask for confirmation or info online for ANTYHING, uless it is IMMEDIATLY AFTER you fill in a form on their site.

As to this scammer, it appears the page was removed. Maybe his host saw it :gl: In the hope (but since it removed may or may not help...but why not try) of helping other netters from being taken-in by this character, I'd do the following, if I was you:

---Contact his server: The "Admin" contact for the server is [email protected] .
---Contact Chase Bank: http://www.chase.com/cm/cs?urlname=shared/crb/page/general.jsp .

Give both a full copy of the email, with headers. Maybe, between the two of them, they can stop him. His server will more than likely just close his account, but that atealst causes him to have to move it. Chase - they know how to contact German authorities/law enforcement - not saying they will, but if they don't its their rep on the line.

 

[sunken]

I get these all the time, more annoying than anything else, and I'm not a Chase customer. One advantage to having a small hometown bank is that they don't usually get phished like the big ones do. I get ones claiming to be from Paypal and Ebay as well. The only annoying thing about these is that it is like crying wolf. I got a real letter from Paypal reminding me about a card expiring, and I was hesitant to even bother to open as it was probably just one of the spams, but it was actually from them. They DID NOT however ask for any information or to click on the link to update the account from the email. They merely stated the last four digits of my card and told me to go to their site to fix it (no link). So for not knowing which are real and which aren't, they are annoying to the ones who've been around and hip to their game, but hopefully not too many new people fall for these scams.

 

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I already reported it before i posted here in the attempt to show someone to be careful with it as for me i don't have accounts with them, i guess one of those email harvester harvested my email and they just blindly blasted the phishing email. thanks for the assurance though and the reporting info