Fraud alert -- Capital One

njoker555 · 03-16-2007

I have just received this email with the title -- "Your account had been recently compromised !" This time i saved it

lol

the body is

Quote:

Dear Customer,

We have strong reasons to believe that your Capital One account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

According to User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your account and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

Please click the link below, which is a SSL secured connection, to update your
account information: https://onlinebanking.capitalone.com/capitalone/login.aspx

If your account information's are not updated within the next 24 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Capital One account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud. Sincerely,

Capital One Security Department

please be aware if you get an email like this, they ask for cc# and pin number lol, so stupid.

freeaholics · 03-17-2007

Yea I get a lot of these type of emails too but not from Capital One. Some people think its the actual company and type in the info.

You just have to be very careful.

njoker555 · 03-18-2007

This is like the 30th one from capital one i got since i registered for a card from them lol, i hate them, not the company, people trying to scam me lol

**louj** · 03-19-2007

Real credit card companies wouldn't need to ask for you pin and cc# for they already have that. If you really are concerned though, try calling your company by phone and don't reply to them through e-mail.

They are so pesky that I just wish that they would one day get caught and be locked up.

njoker555 · 03-19-2007

well i think i stated that in another topic -- i said if a company i work with or have a relation with asks me to verify or confirm something online about billing -- i never do it over the internet, i always call to confirm that they want it and give it over the phone, simple.

dasha101 · 03-26-2007

Thanks a lot for this post. Finally, I have seen a sample email that has phishing on it. I'm glad I have not received anything like this.

It is always not safe to click on links sent to emails. Better check the homepage of the site rather than click the links they have provided.

**onlineexperts** · 03-29-2007

Always make the internet transaction a last resort. If you can fix problems personally or over the phone, then by all means deal with it that way. Internet security is still not perfect and there seems to be a scarcity of trust worthy people online these days.

njoker555 · 03-29-2007

yeah phone is the thing to use if you are working with huge companies like credit card companies, phone companies, your cable company, it doesnt have to be personally, just use their 800 number and its all good.