Has anyone heard of Chase Bank?

KizzyK_2

I've received three emails from Chase Bank on Saturday asking about my “account”. The name rings a bell somewhere and while I'm 99% sure it’s a scam I just wanted to check.

This is a copy of the second email (The first was aking me to log in and the third is the same as this one):

Your online credit card account has high-risk activity status. We are contacting you to remind that on March 27 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with Chase Bank User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access 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.
Login to your limit account and restore online access:
https://www.chase.com/asp/services/update.php?account313985
This notification is part of the All-Electronic Program you enrolled in to receive your activity report online.


The thing that set off the alarm bells was that the “unusual activity” isn’t due to happen until tomorrow

Can anyone shed any light on this? :beer:

Blairweech

Yeh, its a scam. I get e-mails from Chase all the time (and I've never had anything to do with them - they are a real bank though, in America). Report them to abuse@chase.com

Here is information on the fraudelent emails from Chase

soolin

Surely if you don't have an account with that bank then you should be 100% sure it is a scam?

Scams rely on users being naive enough to fall for them and usually succeed only because they hit a user with an official looking letter from a bank they co incidentally actually have an account with. It shouldn't work at all if they try and phish with a bank you don't bank with.

There is an interesting sticky thread about phishing mails on the ebay board you might want to glance through to learn how to protect yourself. The Chase phishing is actually a well known scam (as per Blairweech's post), just in case you were still doubtful.

Soo

wigginsmum

Chase are a wellknown American bank (Chase Manhattan merged with JP Morgan a while back, and some of the Chase entities are regulated over here by the FSA) but I'm not aware that they operate current accounts in the UK: I only know them from the arena of investment banking and private wealth management. I get scam emails purporting to come from them from time to time but I know I don't have an account with them. Soo's right about the phishing scam.

KizzyK_2

The thing is Soo is that I do have an account with them (its a on line CC thing) and while im well aware of the practice of phishing I just wasn't sure about this e-mail and I didn't think to check the bank web site

IvanOpinion

The safe thing to do is never to click on links on emails. Either phone them or go direct to their website and login as normal.

Ivan

gregg1

IvanOpinion wrote:

The safe thing to do is never to click on links on emails. Either phone them or go direct to their website and login as normal.

Ivan

I agree - the last thing you should do is click on the link they give you in the email. I have had loads of these recently, and they are now claiming to be from reputable companies like Barclays and HSBC, they look really genuine but are a scam. They try to get you to fill in the details by worrying you that there is a problem with your account and when you log in with your details, hey presto, they have access to your bank account!

trisontana

As I have said on another thread on this subject , I sometimes do click on the link and then fill up the form with four-letter words. At least it makes me feel better after telling these scammers to go forth and multiply !

jenniferpa

Now I'm a Mac user, so virus producers have less interest in me, but I thought it was possible that simply clicking on a link could itself allow trigger a viral download. Am I wrong about that?

Jennifer

gregg1

jenniferpa wrote:

Now I'm a Mac user, so virus producers have less interest in me, but I thought it was possible that simply clicking on a link could itself allow trigger a viral download. Am I wrong about that?

Jennifer

I think you may be right and I think that is why these scams are so dangerous - someone in IT told us NEVER EVER click onto the link.

angelkez

well chase have been bugging me 4 months and their abuse reporting isnt that great either just got a mail back saying it wasnt from them