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Geek Culture / Attention Customers of Bank One/Chase

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Phaelax
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 05:32
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There appears to be a fraudulent email going around asking users to login to their account to receive the new members newsletter. The link shows a chase.com address but will actually open up to http://user5345.com
I've already forwarded this to the Chase fraud dpt.


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Les Horribres
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 05:39
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I am looking forward to the day when people learn how to use their brains.

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hyrichter
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 05:47
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I usually get about one email per week claiming to be from Chase, Bank of America, etc. Some of them will say things like "Confirm your account and receive $20!" or some other nonsense. Really, people do need to just plain THINK! I'm afraid it's more the older people who are at risk though.


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Les Horribres
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 06:02
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I have an idea... put a virus in your loved ones computer. Or at least hack their email so they can't respond to any of those idiotic easy to catch scams.

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dark coder
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 08:13
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im sure something like that would be patched in an anti virus program :/.

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indi
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 15:10
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we have a national bank australia one floating aroun in emails as well currently in Oz.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 20:10
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Ok, before I get flamed from anyone else for being stupid, NO I did not fall for the scam. I'm overly paranoid about email, so you're lucky if you can even get me to click on a newegg advert in email. I'm just pointing this out to others who might not have caught the actual address it linked to.


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spooky
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 20:39
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I get quite a few claiming to be from CitiBank trying to get my to go to some link to update my details. Do they think I'm stupid or something. Apparently a lot of people do fall for these scams though.

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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 20:52
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If they send out a millions and get one hook then they've won. I just got an e-mail from some 'rich' woman in Africa who wanted to invest her millions that daddy left her in America. And, like a movie I didn't star, I was the only one that could do it for her. Haha. I guess some people try those things out.

I've seen some pretty clever phishing e-mails. One said that your credit card had been charged for flowers by AOL. When you clicked the link, it asked for your username and password. I thought it was bloodly clever, as it contained references to AOL in the URL. I'm sure they got quite a few people with that one.


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BaZko
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Posted: 20th Apr 2006 04:58
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* Looks at UnRead messages of a few thousand... *

Mustve gotten one of those in here...

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hyrichter
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Posted: 20th Apr 2006 05:06
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Phaelax, I never meant to imply that you had fallen for it at all, and I don't think anyone else did. Ebay usually has the most realistic and easy to fall for scams though. You'll get an email looking like a question from a buyer saying something like "When did you ship out my item?" and when you click on it, it takes you to enter your username and password as though you were replying through eBay's message system (brilliant, eBay for making it so we can't reply to questions directly with email )


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Les Horribres
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 01:38
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Quote: "I just got an e-mail from some 'rich' woman in Africa who wanted to invest her millions that daddy left her in America. And, like a movie I didn't star, I was the only one that could do it for her. Haha. I guess some people try those things out."


That sounds familiar... and let me guess, did she promise a million for you as well?

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