Chase.com - What is it!

minap

I recently recieved a message from Chase .com saying -
"Your online credit card account has high-risk activity status. We are contacting you to remind you that on March. 14, 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with Chase Bank's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure. If you would like close your credit card account, please contact us, as soon as possible.

Login to your limit account and restore online access: "

I'm not sure who these people are... has anyone heard of these people is it a genuine message?

please help!!!!

geo555

Its a "Phishing" scam. Scammers send out thousands of these hoping someone , who is a Chase customer, clicks the link on the email to go to a fraudulant site, enter their details and then the scammers have all the details to steal the bankaccount, credit card etc.

Woby_Tide

Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the biggest banks in the US(World) but has no retail presence in the UK, ignore it

minap

Thanks I wasn't going to reply but how do these people get your details?

minap

thanks for the warning...

Woby_Tide

they just randomly make up email addresses for the webmail providers or go through any domains they find via whois and create fake addresses, costs them little to try, if it isn't rejected they then have a n address they can sell on

grumbler

minap wrote:

Thanks I wasn't going to reply but how do these people get your details?

Phishing, how to avoid scam financial emails

Bjornki

I received a similar one about two weeks ago. Decided to ignore it because it's in no way related to any of my finances. I wonder if some people get caught by those schemes. And what it can do to you.

bbruce

I get dozens.
Whilst talking on the phone about another subject, I asked my bank if anyone falls for these scams and they said: "you'd be surprised how many".

juno

I got that one too! Well actually it was my fiance, but I read it first

JasonW_2

Seems appropriate this link - don't worry it's safe http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/creditcard/application.shtml

It's about Chase, but credit cards in general, a warning to make sure you shred any unwanted credit card applications, or other junk that comes through your door that makes it possible for someone other than you to obtain credit or goods. However, this is the worst I've seen - someone ripped an application into tiny pieces, stuck them back together and tried to experiment to see if they company in this case Chase would accept it... and they did!!!

J