"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam

American Express Security Report Notification Phishing Scam

The fake American Express email message below, which appears to be a security report alert that claims the recipients should secure their accounts by validating and updating them, is just one of the many phishing scams created by cybercriminals to trick American Express customers into clicking on the link within it. The link goes to a phishing website (a fake American Express website) that steals online account credentials when visitors attempt to sign into it.

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American Express cardholders are asked never to click on a link in an email message to access to their accounts. They should instead, go directly to American Express website (www.americanexpress.com) and sign into their accounts from there. If there is something wrong or there is something that they need to with their accounts or cards, they will be notified after signing in.

The "American Express Security Report Notification" Scam

Subject: Re: A recent security concern requires your attention

Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 11:04 AM

From: American Express <AmericanExpress@aexpmail.com> wrote:

CardMember Alert

American Express logo

In regards to Primary Cardmember

Cards

Travels

Business

We are writing to let you know that there is a recent security report for your American Express(R) Account(s) . At time of report diligency, We ran into problem validating your profile.

In view of this, Cardmember information needs to be updated and your mandatory effort is required.

WHAT IS REQUIRED

To proceed, An attached HTML Fillable Web Form is sent with this message.

- See Attached Information Form, Download and Open to Continue.

- Finish steps by filling out the Form.

Thank you for your Card Membership.

American Express Customer Care

Privacy Statement

Update Your Email

Message information is included above to help you recognize this as a customer care e-mail from American Express. We kindly ask you not to reply to this e-mail directly as messages are being sent from an unmonitored e-mail address.

© 2018 American Express. All rights reserved.

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Feb 26, 2019 at 1:51 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Phoenix, Arizona, United States

getting multiple msg with American Express that my card suspended, this is funny because we don't have AMX. Dated 2/26/2019

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Mar 2, 2019 at 2:40 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Windham, Maine, United States

This has just started happening to us as well and we do not have an Amex account. I just deleted the messages without clicking on the link.

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Sep 7, 2018 at 6:23 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Gillette, Wyoming, United States

The wording, capitalization, and punctuation should alert any AMEX card holder, but of course we're all in a hurry these days and might miss the errors.

The phish I got was so ludicrously amateur (and obviously not from a native English speaker) that it gave me more laughter than concern. I hope others are quick to spot it, or simply know better.

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Aug 24, 2018 at 12:37 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Hereford, England, United Kingdom

Scam still going around:-

"This is to inform you on a timely security report for your Card. At the time of scoring the report, Problems were encountered validating Cardmember profile .

Essentially, Cardmember informations need to be requested and your effort is required.

PLEASE-TAKE-A-MOMENT

See attached for Fillable HTML Web Form

o - Download to Open WebForm.

- Finish steps by filling out the Form.

Thank you for your Card Membership.

American Express Customer Care"

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Aug 8, 2018 at 10:43 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Received this email on August 8th - it's still making the rounds.

"This is to inform you on a timely security report for your American Express(R) Card.

At time of report analysis, We ran into problem validating your profile.

In view of this, Cardmember informations need to be requested and your mandatory effort is required.

WHAT IS REQUIRED

To proceed, An attached HTML Fillable Web Form is sent along this message.

o - See Attached Information Form, Download and Open to Continue.

- Finish steps by filling out the Form.

Thank you for your Card Membership.

American Express Customer Care

Privacy Statement Update Your Email

Message information is included above to help you recognize this as a customer care e-mail from American Express. We kindly ask you not to reply to this e-mail directly as messages are being sent from an unmonitored e-mail address.

© 2018 American Express. All rights reserved.

GNAENILNECA10600"

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Jul 18, 2018 at 11:29 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: New York, United States

Received this email today, July 18th. Looked suspicious and I don't have an American Express account so it is even more suspicious. Thanks for posting this update so I could confirm my gut reaction.

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Jul 17, 2018 at 1:44 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Flushing, New York, United States

I received this message on July 17, 2018. It was intercepted by my email application which placed it in my Junk folder. As is usually the case with trash messages like this one, it is rife with syntactical and punctuation errors, typically a dead giveaway that the message is bogus.

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Jul 13, 2018 at 9:29 AM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: San Diego, California, United States

I just received this message today, July 13, 2018 but did not open any attachment. Seemed strange and there was no logo attached.

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Jul 8, 2018 at 4:59 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Tumwater, Washington, United States

I got what I BELIEVE to be a "phishing letter" but it concerns me because I have been fighting identity theft (victim) since No. 2016 and one of the cards she tried to open in my name was American Express.

I have NEVER had this card and I'm worried she might be trying again.

Sincerely,

Georgia.

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Jun 5, 2018 at 5:35 AM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
info

Here is another scam:

- Original Message -

Subject: A recent security concern requires your attention

From: American Express <AmericanExpress@aep.com>

Sent: Monday, June 4, 2018, 11:14 AM

CardMember Alert

American Express logo

In regards to Primary Cardmember

We are writing to let you know that there is a recent security report for your American Express(R) Account(s) . At time of report diligency, We ran into problem validating your profile.

In view of this, Cardmember information needs to be updated and your mandatory effort is required.

WHAT IS REQUIRED

To proceed, An attached HTML Fillable Web Form is sent with this message.

- See Attached Information Form, Download and Open to Continue.

- Finish steps by filling out the Form.

Thank you for your Card Membership.

American Express Customer Care

Privacy Statement

Update Your Email

Message information is included above to help you recognize this as a customer care e-mail from American Express. We kindly ask you not to reply to this e-mail directly as messages are being sent from an unmonitored e-mail address.

© 2018 American Express. All rights reserved.

ALEENICNECA0130"

Delete

May 30, 2018 at 10:31 PM by
"American Express Security Report Notification" Phishing Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"From: "American Express" <AmericanExpress@ampress.com>

Date: May 29, 2018 at 6:11:49 AM PDT

To: americanexpress@ampress.com

Subject: A recent security concern requires your attention

Reply-To: AmericanExpress@ampress.com

CardMember Alert

American Express logo

In regards to Primary Cardmember

Image Lock

Cards

Travels

Business

We are writing to let you know that there is a recent security report for your American Express(R) Account(s) . At time of report diligency, We ran into problem validating your profile.

In view of this, Cardmember information needs to be updated and your mandatory effort is required.

WHAT IS REQUIRED

To proceed, An attached HTML Fillable Web Form is sent with this message.

- See Attached Information Form, Download and Open to Continue.

- Finish steps by filling out the Form.

Thank you for your Card Membership.

American Express Customer Care"

Delete

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