"Bank of America" hilarious email fraud.

[QuestionAll...]

Dear Member, (I am not a member)

We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your Bank of America account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features.

To restore your online account access, we need you to confirm your account, to do so we need you to follow the link below and proceed to confirm your information:

https://dubyadubyadubya.bankofamerica.com/sucker/.......... (my edit)

--------> Tank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

Sincerely,
Bank of America Customer Service

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if you can't spell correctly or use a checker, how could I expect you to 'protect' my account? go away, tankyouverymuch.

:rofl:

[Pierre.Suave]

1. LOL

tats funny!

(typo done on purpose)

[Hav]

2. .

Sadly, many who don't know better, fall for this shit.
I received some of those as well. Sometimes, they even pressure people by claiming that they have to close the account if this person doesn't react. I hate these fuckers and hope that they will be punished one day.

[MorningGlow]

3. Very nice!

Writer with an accent perhaps?

I keed.

Got the same sort of e-mail that supposedly came from eBay--or maybe PayPal. One or the other. I almost believed it for a minute, the bastids.

[rocktivity]

4. I get these e-mails from banks I don't have accounts in!

And poor Paypal has had to set up [email protected], where you can forward the e-mails THEY were supposed to have sent out!

:rofl:
rocknation

[wryter2000]

9. I use [email protected] all the time

Ebay also has [email protected]. I keep hoping they'll catch one of these creeps.

[Rosemary2205]

5. I get them from Citibank all the time.

I've never had any sort of account with Citicorp.

[warrens]

6. The number of typos in these scams is amazing

I don't think I have ever received one that didn't have a glaring typo like that one. But all they need is a few suckers...

[karlrschneider]

7. Weird, it looks like a legitimate link. Do you have an account with them?

I see lots of stupid mistakes like that from genuine sites (DU included) ;-)
edit to fix my own dumb typo...

[Kelly Rupert]

10. You can hide URLs, you know. n/t

[karlrschneider]

11. Yeah, but that one appears to have the proper certificates and doesn't

ask right away for info. But I'm no guru...

edit: BTW I keep a separate computer with absolutely no personal info on the other desk just to poke around suspicious stuff...

[Kelly Rupert]

12. I'm guessing the link in the original email

doesn't actually send you to bankofamerica.com, but only appears to.

[QuestionAll...]

15. I chopped off the last part of the url...

so the link above is to the real site. will edit.

[Rosemary2205]

16. self delete

[QuestionAll...]

17. I didn't initially put in the entire real fake address. see edit in OP.

sorry for the confusion.

[karlrschneider]

18. Got it, see OP's edit.

:-)

[wryter2000]

8. LOL

I love when you get those spams that Paypal needs to you update your account information, and your e-mail address is one of many in a huge list that might have been generated randomly. Oh yeah, like that's how Paypal would get in touch with you.

[Q3JR4]

13. I receive tons of emails like this,

In one case I edited the link in the account and found out where it was taking me. I went to the site and if I had had nastiness on mind would have been able to access the email creator's entire system. The security was virtually nonexistent.

[sharp_stick]

20. Man you should have hammered him

I would have destroyed everything the dirt-bag had. These creeps hang out in places with no real law enforcement or consequences for ripping off the identities of hundreds or thousands of people who should but don't know better.

[Warpy]

14. That's their URL

and I've gotten a similar message from Wells Fargo saying that someone had tried 5 unsuccessful passwords to access my account and that I needed to reauthorize password access to the account. After I verified this by going into the bank to check with customer service, I followed all the steps to reactivate password access.

Apparently they have a policy of shutting down access after a few hacking attempts.

Remember, anybody who gets a look at a check you write can write down the account number and try to hack in.

My advice is to print out the email and check with customer service to verify the problem.

[Gruenemann]

19. Check THIS out!

I got one of those, supposedly from WaMu, and just for the hell of it I clicked on the link it gave and it took me to a site that was supposedly Wells-Fargo! What a bunch of stupid fucks.