<p>I received an email with “Chase” as the sender. Title of the email says wire transfer notice. I was not thinking and open the email, before the attachment started download, the good old AVG caught that as a virus, which made me do a clean up afterwards.</p>
<p>Just want everyone be aware.</p>
<p>I think you may need an email program with better spam control.</p>
<p>I got one of those…in my spam folder!</p>
<p>Pretty sure I clean this kind of spam out of the spam folder regularly… These Chinese and Russian scam artists need to learn proper grammar for these emails to be taken as the real deal! </p>
<p>I receive VERY few spams, especially the “Chase” kind. I have a huge spam folder which grows at a rate of over 500 per day. I have no idea why this email went through.</p>
<p>We have no accounts with Bank of America, yet received an email allegedly from BOA, asking us to log in at the provided link. Email had BOA logo, and link “looked” like a BOA link, except hovering the cursor over the link revealed a bizarre looking link.</p>
<p>There’s always someone evil out there…</p>
<p>I almost fell for a Verizon looking one. Had the right logo. Web page was identical to Verizon main page and it came shortly after a legit transaction. But Verizon now has a 2 page sign in this one lacked and it wanted SS number to log in. Closed that one up quickly. Now I always check the full email address first instead of looking at just the name that shows. </p>
<p>Almost all the time, I never provided the allegedly sending organization with my email address in the first place. So knowing it’s phony is easy.</p>
<p>I got one from Chase that they’re going to suspend my card and to sign in and fix the problem. Normally I’m quite leery of even clicking on these links, but the security people at work said the systems there had enough protection that they wouldn’t be compromised by going to the site. Interesting thing was that If I used Chrome, it immediately warned that it was a phishing site, but IE took me right to the sign on screen.</p>
<p>There are ways to read an email without a …computer! And it pays to have a rather unusual and dedicated email for banking contacts. ;)</p>
<p>Today, I received two emails from a very seldom used, unusual email account. That account is only provided to few personal contacts.</p>
<ol>
<li>Medicare Enrollment period has started. I won’t be eligible to Medicare until next year, so why inform me now?</li>
<li>Some one ordered a background check on me… Huh? So what should I do now? </li>
</ol>
<p>Delete both. If you hover over the email address you will probably see it is from a strange address, usually with another country code ending. </p>
<p>Just found out those spams were sent to an email address which I entered for a “prize drawing” at a local supermarket. In turn, the company resold the emails for money, whether the prizes were actually awarded is unknown.</p>
<p>I checked my spam box and sure enough there is a Chase email. I didn’t enter anything. But also an important email ended up in the spam box also.</p>