"Your Online Contact Change Request" Chase Phishing Email Scam
The email message below which claims a request to update the recipients' information has been received, is a phishing scam. The email message is just one of the many being sent by cyber-criminals to potential victims. Therefore, Chase customers who have received the same email message are asked not to follow the instructions or click on the links within it. The links go to a fake Chase Bank website designed to trick visitors into stealing their Chase usernames and passwords.
The "Your Online Contact Change Request" Chase Phishing Scam
--- On Thu, 6/22/17, Chase adam.mikulay@siu.eduwrote:
From: Chase - adam.mikulay@siu.edu
Subject: Your Online contact Change
Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017, 6:29 PM
We've received your Chase Online (SM) request to update your address information. You can see the change(s) in your records in three to five business days).
If you didn't make this request, please log on to chase.com/onlineprofile from here now to update your personal information and
account records.
Online Services
Team
ABOUT THIS
MESSAGE:
This service email gives you updates and information about your Chase relationship.
We sent this email from an unmonitored mailbox. Go to chase.com/CustomerService to find the best way to contact us.
Your privacy is important to us. See our online Security Center to learn how to protect your information. Chase Privacy
Operations, PO Box 659752, San Antonio, TX 78265-9752.
© 2017 Chase Bank
USA
Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their username, password, financial or personal information. Therefore, Chase customers should never click on a link in an email message to sign into any of their online accounts. They should instead, go directly to www.chase.com in their web browsers and sign into their account from there. If there is a problem with their accounts, they will be notified after signing in.
Chase customers who were tricked into clicking the link in the fake email message and who have entered their usernames and passwords on the bogus Chase website that they were taken to are asked to change their Chase password and contact Chase bank immediately for help.
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