Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
American Express users, the "Notice Concerning your Cardmember Account" email below is being sent by cybercriminals to potential victims, with an attached form or HTML Webpage requesting personal and financial information. American Express will never send their users an email message with an attached form or HTML Webpage requesting personal, financial or account information. Therefore, American Express users are asked to delete email messages with an attached form or HTML Webpage requesting the same information.
Also, they should not follow the instructions in the phishing email messages, and if they are in doubt or uncertain about an email message that they have received, they should contact American Express Customer Support for help verifying the email message authenticity.
From: "American Express" <AmericanExpress@amep.com>Date: September 3, 2018 at 10:18:14 AM EDTTo: americanexpress@amep.comSubject: Notice Concerning your CardMember Account.Reply-To: AmericanExpress@amep.comAmericanExpress-logoBasic Card memberIM Cards Travels BusinessWe are writing to notify you of a recent security report for your AMEX Card. At the time of evaluating this report, It failed to Pass our Accuracy Checks.Herein, We mandate Cardmember effort to keep an up-to-date profile information with us.PLEASE-TAKE-A-MOMENTAttached with this message is a Fillable HTML WebForm.Download and Finish by Completing the WebForm.Thank you for your Card Membership.American Express Customer Care
From: "American Express" <AmericanExpress@amep.com>
Date: September 3, 2018 at 10:18:14 AM EDT
To: americanexpress@amep.com
Subject: Notice Concerning your CardMember Account.
Reply-To: AmericanExpress@amep.com
AmericanExpress-logo
Basic Card member
IM Cards Travels Business
We are writing to notify you of a recent security report for your AMEX Card. At the time of evaluating this report, It failed to Pass our Accuracy Checks.
Herein, We mandate Cardmember effort to keep an up-to-date profile information with us.
PLEASE-TAKE-A-MOMENT
Attached with this message is a Fillable HTML WebForm.
Download and Finish by Completing the WebForm.
Thank you for your Card Membership.
American Express Customer Care
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Here is another scam: - Original Message - Subject: Notice Concerning your CardMember Account From: American Express Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019, 1:30 PM To: americanexpress@dccnotify.com Hello to Primary Card Member Account: 100038 We're reaching you on a recent fixes on our Online Service Platform and we feel the need to re-assess cardmember's profile. At the time of assessment, your profile failed validation at diligence check attempts. However, For security reason, We declined access to card member's profile and request that you confirm what we have on records for you. Attached along this message is a web filliable form. Complete request by downloading and filling out the form. See Attached Thank you for your Card Membership.
Here is another scam: - Forwarded Message - From: "American Express" To: "americanexpress@member.axpmessages.com" Sent: Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 6:54 PM Subject: Notice Concerning your CardMember Card In regards to Primary Cardmember, A compulsory upgrade was recently carried out by our online service team. At the completion of this process, it becomes neccesary for us to reach out to you. However, You are to complete this simple validation exercise, this we urge that you confirm on record informations with us. YOU-ARE-TO Attached with this message is a Web Form. Take a moment, download and complete this form. Thanks for your continued CardMembership. American Express Customer Care
Here is another scam: "From: American Express Date: October 26, 2018 at 12:16:23 PM CDT Subject: Notice Concerning your CardMember Account. Card Security Procedures Valued CardMember, We changed security screening procedures for CardMember access. Please follow the given instructions in order to comply with our additional security requirements. By passing back and forth secret information that only you and us know, you can feel even more secure with your online card access experience. We recognize you and you recognize us. Kindly comply with the one-time actions below. ONE TIME ACTION: To continue, we have sent you an attached HTML Webpage Form. - See Attached Form then Download. - Open the downloaded attached Form. - Continue Steps by filling out the Form to complete. Thank you for your continued Cardmembership. Sincerely, American Express Customer Care. Was this e-mail helpful? Please Click here to give us your feedback. For Your Security: Account Starting: 37XX-X View Our Privacy Statement Add Us to Your Address Book"
I received the same email. I mean exactly the same email. What a con job.I hope you can trace where this came from and shut them down.