posted on March 29, 2005 01:42:36 PM
I have received at least 3 of these from banks I don't even bank at. Same thing asking you to sign in to your account. I don't think so.
In order to maintain the safety and integrity of our Regions Bank community, we have issued the following warning.
It came to our attention that your account may be suspected of fraud.
We ask our users with exposed accounts to confirm their identity with Regions every once in a while, in order to upkeep the safety of our
environment.
If the submitted information will fail to match our records for three times, your account will be suspended until further notice.
If you will fail to confirm your identity within the next 48 hours, your account will be suspended until further notice.
Please follow the link below and confirm your account information:
posted on March 29, 2005 03:01:24 PM
Nothing new. I have been getting these occasionally for the past few years. Think one purporting to be Citibank was the first The others I was not aware even existed.
buyhigh
posted on March 29, 2005 03:31:19 PM
It's kind of amusing to see the spammers try to guess what bank I use. And it's a credit union, not even a bank!
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posted on March 30, 2005 05:53:47 AM
Citibank and Washington Mutual are in my box daily. This week I've been hacked from Europe, Suspended from Ebay due to false info, Suspended due to billing and created new emails and addresses at paypal and ......
posted on March 30, 2005 10:45:31 AM
These spams are NOT coming from the banks. They are from crooks trying to get info from you so they can rip you off. I keep getting spam from WaMu, I don't bank there so I called the local branch & was told this not being done by the bank.
posted on March 30, 2005 01:44:52 PM
These are simply fishing expeditions run by criminals to part a fool and their money.
Ignore all online emails from your financial institutions unless you signed up for them, and even then, your financial institutions will never ask you for your details as they know them already.
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs,
it's just possible you haven't grasped the true situation."
posted on March 30, 2005 01:54:14 PM
A more accurate term for these e-mails would be "phishing" These cannot be classified as "Spam" like the ones trying to sell you something to enlarge your penis etc etc.
buyhigh
posted on March 30, 2005 02:40:28 PM
These types of phishing e-mails are familiar to most of us here, and for us personally pose nothing more than an annoyance in the time it takes to delete them.
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.But, they are one of the factors affecting Internet(Ebay) business for the last year and into the future. The growing awareness and fear of these types of dangers are causing many people to cut back on the use of the Internet. I don't know if anything can be done, but if it can not, then the phishing scams and other scams will grow and become more dangerous, and eventually lead to the the end of growth of Internet commerce. And if this happens, forget about spreading out your business among several on-line venues. Start looking to spread out off-line.
posted on March 30, 2005 03:19:22 PM
I have one question about these emails...they always start as "TKO Notice"...what does "TKO" mean? Technical knockout?
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Just making sure the "SMILIE" thread doesn't die (we all could use SMILIES every now and again! http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=187440&id=187440
posted on March 30, 2005 05:02:34 PM
>>>Ignore all online emails from your financial institutions unless you signed up for them, and even then, your financial institutions will never ask you for your details as they know them already.<<<
Agitprop...I can only add one thing to that statement.....AMEN!!!
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on March 30, 2005 08:24:38 PM
We already know Vendio outlook is a drop in the bucket.....Millions of people who never read any of our experiences never know of this stuff UNTIL,,,,,,,well,,,,,,we know.....
