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Credit Card Email Spam

Carol08 — Wed, 23 May 2018 19:36:42 GMT

I know most of you are familiar with reporting spam emails from credit card companies. but I wanted to alert anyone who doesn't know about them. I received an email from a credit card company letting me know that there was suspicious activity on my account. I was supposed to download something, and fill in the blanks, so they could check into this "activity". I called their Customer Service department and reported this suspicious email. The man was very gracious, and informed me that it was indeed spam......and to forward it to them. If anyone gets an email like this, please don't click on the link. Report it immediately to the credit card company.

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Isobel Archer — Wed, 23 May 2018 19:39:27 GMT

Exactly. Never click on their link. Call the number on your CC.

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OKPrincess — Wed, 23 May 2018 19:45:33 GMT

A great reminder to us. Thanks for posting. @Carol08

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:30:23 GMT

Thanks. This is one reason I don't own any credit cards. I still get emails offering me credit cards (a few every single day).

All of this spam emails and phone calls have totally gotten out of control.

I still have a land line but hardly answer it anymore. Even with the phone I have with the delete button a surprising number of spam calls still gets through.

This drives me crazy. In fact i accidentally blocked my youngest daughter because i was too quick on the delete button.

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wishmoon — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:31:44 GMT

I received a similar email from my Chase credit card. The addy at the top was chase@comcast or cox dot com (forget which). I knew this was a scam and ignored it.

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Happiness Is Inside JOB — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:42:09 GMT

@Carol08 wrote:
I know most of you are familiar with reporting spam emails from credit card companies. but I wanted to alert anyone who doesn't know about them. I received an email from a credit card company letting me know that there was suspicious activity on my account. I was supposed to download something, and fill in the blanks, so they could check into this "activity". I called their Customer Service department and reported this suspicious email. The man was very gracious, and informed me that it was indeed spam......and to forward it to them. If anyone gets an email like this, please don't click on the link. Report it immediately to the credit card company.

Ms. Carol

THANK YOU SO MUCH, I posted this information on my community Next Door site. I did not use any names but just the reminder of the email scam.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:42:14 GMT

Yeah, that's a no brainer. No CC would ever do such a thing and I don't how anyone (excluding the very elderly) would take something like that seriously. Generally, you can tell something is a scam without even opening the email.

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dearestkoko — Wed, 23 May 2018 21:24:23 GMT

Good reminder!

thanks!

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Kachina624 — Wed, 23 May 2018 23:10:22 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
Yeah, that's a no brainer. No CC would ever do such a thing and I don't how anyone (excluding the very elderly) would take something like that seriously. Generally, you can tell something is a scam without even opening the email.

@chrystaltree. Do you consider the elderly collectively to be a bunch of idiots? If they're smart enough to learn to use a computer, I daresay they're cognizant of common scams.

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shaggygirl — Wed, 23 May 2018 23:35:16 GMT

Less than 5 min ago I forwarded a spam e-mail to abuse@bankofamerica. 99.9% of the phishing e-mails I get are in my hotmail account which I use only for on-line purchases. My main e-mail account I rarely get any. The last year way more junk has made it into my hotmail in-box than in previous years when the vast majority went straight to my junk folder.

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Snoopp — Thu, 24 May 2018 11:39:13 GMT

I got this phishing email. I let the bank know and they said they had gotten another call a few days earlier about the same thing.

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mimilucy — Thu, 24 May 2018 22:55:46 GMT

I accidentally blocked my son's new cell phone number on my home phone for the same reason. I jumped the gun trying to get rid of annoying phone calls. Now I wish I could UN block!!!

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kivah — Thu, 24 May 2018 23:31:56 GMT

Most people know to NEVER download anything or respond to emails of any kind.

That goes for phone calls as well.

If ur not sure, call the company at the phone number u have to confirm.

Express Scripts pays my pharmacy thru SCAN (medicare). A couple of days ago, I got a phone call showing Express Scripts on the caller ID. The first question was for me to confirm something about my personal information. I hung up!!!!!

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shaggygirl — Fri, 25 May 2018 11:45:47 GMT

@mimilucy wrote:
I accidentally blocked my son's new cell phone number on my home phone for the same reason. I jumped the gun trying to get rid of annoying phone calls. Now I wish I could UN block!!!

Surely there is a way to unblock it. On my home phone I dial *60 which takes me to blocking/unblocking options. If you still have it check the booklet of instructions that came with your phone. If you don't have it you can probably google your phone make/model and find them. Or if you have a separate blocking device hooked up to it then check the instructions that came with that, or again, google. The last cell phone I got came with only the barest minimum of instructions so I had to find them on-line for some of the features I wanted to use. And it's only a flip phone!! Google is my best friend.