"American Express Cardmember Report Requires Your Action" Phishing Scam

American Express cardholders are asked never to click on a link in an email message to access to their accounts. They are asked instead to go directly to American Express's website and sign into their accounts, and if there is something wrong with their accounts, it will be displayed to them.

The "American Express Cardmember Report Requires Your Action" Scam

From: "American Express" AmericanExpress@ampress.com

Date: August 9, 2018 at 1:06:05 PM CDT

Subject: Alert: CardMember report requires your action.

Reply-To: AmericanExpress@ampress.com

Service Notice

American Express logo

In regards to Basic Cardmember

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.

- 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

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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.

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Victims of the American Express phishing are asked to change their account and email passwords, and contact American Express for help.