BANK OF AMERICA- SCAM E-MAILS. Warning to you and your kids

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<p>We are new to Bank of America. Branches convenient on campus and off to my sons college so we opened his college acct there.</p>

<p>(In all the years of banking elsewhere, I never get any email from our banks. BOA sends weekly emails, so it did not seem unusual to get an email from them.)</p>

<p>Scammed email states that our online account can not be accessed (gives bogus reason) and to “click here” to update information. Account will then be accessible in several days.</p>

<p>I did not follow the directions in the email but called BOA as I am a new customer and didn’t know what they were talking about. Account is fine and assessable (attempted from another window). Scam emails should be sent to <a href="mailto:abuse@bankofamerica.com">abuse@bankofamerica.com</a></p>

<p>Remind your kids not to ever directly respond to any emails of this kind. The 800 number is on the BOA website to verify any of these sort of things to see if they were generated from BOA if in question.</p>

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<p>This is a very common scam known as “phishing”. Ebay & Paypal accounts are frequent targets, along with probably every bank. Just a coincidence that the spoof e-mail came after your son set up a BOA account. That is exactly what these scammers are after: <a href=“http://phishinginfo.org/[/url]”>http://phishinginfo.org/&lt;/a&gt; <a href=“Home | Seller Center”>Home | Seller Center;

<p>P.S. Your kids are probably more computer savvy and less likely to be scammed than their parents :p</p>

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<p>Thanks for this post. We set up a student account at BofA a couple of months ago. It was not my choice, but my son’s. I prefer my local bank, but we were concerned about the lack of available resources where he is going to school.</p>

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<p>An easy way to detect a phishing email is to put your cursor over whatever link is provided in the email. The actual web address will appear in the lower left-hand side of your screen; it is very easy to tell that the actual address is not legitimate.</p>

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<p>We don’t have a BOA account and still get these emails.</p>

<p>But along the same lines, we got a call from Flagstar bank on Sunday. A recorded message said that our account had been put on hold and to call a number to have it reactivated. We don’t have a Flagstar account, but have three adult sons so I called the number to find out whose account it was. The number answered “Flagstar Bank” and said to enter the account number and press #. I just pressed # because I didn’t have an account. It proceeded to have me enter my pin and security code (again, I didn’t have one). Then it said “Thank you, your account has been reactivated”. Obviously this is a scam and I reported it, but others will want to be careful.</p>

<p>A few people I know have also received emails purportedly from the IRS saying things like they are due a refund and to click the link to get it. These are also scams and should be avoided.</p>

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<p>thanks Crazed. I am getting a ton of fake BOA emails. I did not knwo the <a href="mailto:abuse@boa.com">abuse@boa.com</a> link … thanks. </p>

<p>I get a lot of these phishin attempts faking ebay and paypal emails. Both these companies have accounts … <a href="mailto:spoof@ebay.com">spoof@ebay.com</a> and <a href="mailto:spoof@paypal.com">spoof@paypal.com</a> … I have tried the same with boa but it did not work … it’s great to know about the “abuse” link.</p>

<p>PS - I also have started getting phishing emails that are fakes from Fidelity also … I know they do not have a “spoof” email address … next time I’ll try the “abuse” address.</p>