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[Carol08]

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.

[Isobel Archer]

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

[OKPrincess]

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

[Annabellethecat66]

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.

[wishmoon]

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.

[Happiness Is Inside JOB]

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@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.

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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.

[chrystaltree]

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.  

[dearestkoko]

Good reminder! 

thanks!

[Kachina624]

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@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.  

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@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.

[shaggygirl]

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.