Spam emails

Thanks for heads up because I do bank with them. We have received other emails like this in the past from various companies. One we received asked us to verify our social security number!

Emails such as this are phishing emails. They try to get your account numbers and any other information to use and steal your identity. They used to be obvious with poor graphics and bad English. The newest ones have gotten much more sophisticated. You should familiarize yourself with your bank's proceedures, but as far as I know, NO BANK requires you to verify your account by sending information online. If you get an email requesting you to call the bank's securily department, I also wouldn't recommend using the number they provided. Use the phone number on your statements and let them connect you to the correct department. Major banks would like recipients to forward these suspicious emails to internet security departments. That web address should be on your statement or posted at their website. Doing that does help in tracking down perpetrators. Thanks for the heads up!

I've gotten these type of emails before, and I just delete them. What's sad is that I have no connection whatsoever with Bank of America. Scratch that, I do have a connection - I make my house payment through their website because it seems they bought the account for Countrywide. However, this wouldn't have anything to do with me because the mortgage is in my dad's name. If anyone should be getting those emails, it would be my dad.

These scams are still around and I think that they will be around. Sadly, people will not know any better, some people are way too trusting. Which can be a rather deadly quality when opening things on the Internet. I think I am so paranoid that anything like that, my red flag is up. Which can really be a headache for banks I imagine if people are disbelieving of e-mails because of things like this.