Dogmatix
New Member
I was shocked this evening when I opened my email to find three messages; one from Chase, one from BB&T, and one from eBay. Each informed me that my account had been violated in some manner. Now I'm pretty savvy but they were very convincing. They had links to the legitimate websites, they had addresses. A a matter of fact the one for BB&T instructed you to follow the link but told you to call the number on the back of your card if you were worried about the link. Here's the thing I don't have a BBT account! For about 5 minutes I was in a panic.
What I ended up doing was closing the emails and then logging on to Chase.com (Important! I didn't use the link provided in the message) Right on their front page was a warning about fraudulent email scams and there was a copy of the email in my box. Apparently if you follow the links the can track your computer and obviously if you provide them with account info you're screwed. My email must be on some phishing line.
Anyways this may be old news to many of you but if not be warned.
What I ended up doing was closing the emails and then logging on to Chase.com (Important! I didn't use the link provided in the message) Right on their front page was a warning about fraudulent email scams and there was a copy of the email in my box. Apparently if you follow the links the can track your computer and obviously if you provide them with account info you're screwed. My email must be on some phishing line.
Anyways this may be old news to many of you but if not be warned.