<p>I just got an email from “chase online Banking” about a planned shut down, and needing to log on and provide my account info.ahem…I don’t think so. I do NOT have chase online banking. </p>
<p>I didn’t open the link…</p>
<p>Wonders if anyone else has gotten this gem today.</p>
<p>I receive a variation of this e-mail several times a week. I make it a point to never open it. I may go to the bank’s website and see if there are any notifications there. One of my wife’s “co-workers” opens these kinds of e-mails all the time and then finds that he has to notify everyone on his contact list not to open the e-mail.</p>
<p>Every now and then I sift through my spam folder and find these things.</p>
<p>I get these from Wells Fargo…except I don’t bank with, nor have I ever banked with, Wells Fargo.</p>
<p>Yes, if you get any emails like this and happen to actually HAVE an account, you may wish to call the number you get from the back of your credit card OR your bank statement. I would never click on these links.</p>
<p>There are also a lot of attachments for delivery of USPS or UPS or other services. When it doubt, DON’T CLICK!</p>
<p>It is very tough to believe any of these emails. If it’s REAL, you should be addressed by name and there should be info about how you can verify the email. Often it’s not specifically addressed to you or anyone in particular. That’s definitely a tipoff.</p>
<p>I find it amusing that I get emails from the FBI, Wells Fargo, and the former Prime Minister of Nigeria. I do not click on their links – or even on the links from those I do have a relationship with, like Paypal and Amazon. </p>
<p>If you don’t even want to open the email but are curious about what it says, someone on CC told me to right-click on the message in your message list and then left-click on “View message source.” The message then appears, with all its coding, which makes it somewhat unreadable but it’s readable enough for you to see if it’s legit. What I find particularly interesting when I do that is that you can see what email address the message really came from – not just the email address that it looks like it came from – and you can also see who else the email was addressed to. I know that if the other email addresses include random variations off of my address that they were just phishing and got lucky and found a real email address (mine) to send to.</p>
<p>I just got an email from Bank of America.</p>
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<p>So I guess I don’t have to worry about this until 06/01/2014 ? LOL. I guess between now and then I should probably open up an account with them too.</p>
<p>OK… we got this email a few days ago:
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<p>The email address looked legit.</p>
<p>It would really seem legit, if only we don’t have a Bank of America bank account.</p>
<p>parentofpeople, </p>
<p>I went to the BOA website, and they ask that if you receive any email purporting to come from BOA, you forward it to them at: abuse @ bankofamerica . com (without the spaces)</p>
<p>parentofpeople, that is just the European (or at least English) way of writing dates–with the day, then the month, then the year. Which leads me to believe even more that it is a spammy kind of thing…</p>
<p>The grammar and punctuation in both of those e-mails is off. You’d think that the fraudsters would at least try to get their wording right :rolleyes: .</p>
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Like Teriwtt said, most other countries of the world put the month first, then the day. So they meant January 6, 2014.</p>
<p>What I find funny about all these spam emails is that the banks I actually do business with don’t have my email address. So no way am I getting an email message from them!</p>
<p>These emails are always spam and shouldn’t be opened. No bank is going to communicate with customers in this way.</p>
<p>Oh, that makes sense about the date, but also just confirms how fake it is since I am in the US. The email address looks legit so who knows if people really do fall for this. But I agree the grammar and phrasing just didn’t seem right even if the date was presented correctly to me. </p>
<p>I didn’t click on any of the links so who knows what was waiting for me there!</p>