Has anyone else gotten an email like this?
Dear customer,
due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the Internet Banking community we have issued this warning message. It has come to our attention that your account information needs to be updated due to inactivity.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes of your online experience and renew your records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, if you choose to ignore our request, you leave as no choice but to temporary suspend your account.
Please use the link below to access our mainframe database verification system and confirm the information we have on file for your account.
https://secure.regionsnet.com/EBanking/logon/user
Note: Requests for information will be initiated by Regions Business Development; this process cannot be externally requested through Customer Support.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact our customer support department any time at:
– support@regions.com
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire system.
Sincerely,
Regions Bank Management.
it’s called phishing and it’s become one of the most prevalent / successful scam plays on the net. I get ’em all the time.
It’s a phishing scam. They’ve gotten very popular lately. If you actually look at the URL that they send you to, it’s not the place it purports to be.
I’ve gotten that one or ones like it a few times…. Like dude, are folks not smart enough to pick up the phone and call their bank and ask before doing something like this?
A couple of times a week at least.
Anytime they start out by trying to get you to give them personal info for ANY reason, it’s a phishing scam.
I’ve gotten them from “my” credit card company, and from banks and companies I’ve got no business with or barely even heard of, and they all sound a lot like that one.
Randomly trolling for someone stupid or gullible enough to bite.
And, you know, I’d bet eventually they find somebody.
or like me, fooled by an authentic-appearing website with authentic-appearing URL. *shrug* I ain’t dumb but I ain’t infallible neither…
It happens to the best of us. I don’t know how I’d have reacted if I’d gotten that email before hearing about it from friends. I hope I’d have gone to snopes or something and found a red flag though.
yeah. wish I’d gone to snopes.
i liked that password!
I get them from “EBay” and “PayPal” (not). They’re quite visually clever and if you’re someone who takes things at face value, you could get burned.
i find it amusing that i get these things from banks at which i’ve never even had an account (like the aforementioned regions bank).
One of the things that twigs me to it being bogus is the misused English. “please take 5-10 minutes of your online experience” and “temporary suspend your account”.
not to say I haven’t fallen for a phish. Twice now there has been a convincing spoof of Yahoo!Mail and I got taken. Of course, one of those times Jeff did too, so we both had to change our passwords. Made me feel better that the pro made the same error I did… *g*