Bank of America E-mail Scam

That is pretty bad. Geez---I feel sorry for people who believe anything they see in print and then will fall for scams like this. Thanks!

Sue I think Tammy got one of those e-mails also. There was an article in the paper hear warning on those scams. The AG post a article in the Sunday paper every sunday almost with helpful info. KYSIDE38

That's great to know, kyside - hopefully no one else falls for this scam. Fortunately, I knew better. I get junk like this in my e-mail all the time. They use scare tactics like this to con you into providing them your personal information.

Ever got the ones from Nigeria? Like somebody has died and loeft you money? LOL Yeah right all my relatives are poor also. LOL KYSIDE38

Oh yes, I've gotten those - and I actually had one guy from the Philipines send me a bogus money order for something he wanted to buy from me on Ebay. But he wanted me to cash it and then send his "commission" back to him by Western Union...his poor "client" was too poor to raise the money for another money order for his commission. Yeah, right. Mr. Scam Artist, meet Mr. FBI Agent!

Secret Agent SueBee LOL There was a show on Primetime about scam artist KYSIDE38

I have been getting those kind of emails at work for 2 years. They are a pretty common type of scam. I also get emails that are very realistic replicas of the ebay and paypal website asking to update my account. No bank, or legitimate company would ever ask you to update you information online.

I get those e-mails too, JMM - I just forward them to the spoof e-mail address at Ebay and Paypal and let them deal with it. I don't even open them anymore.

Did you forward that email to Bank of America? It might be a small bit of work on your part to find an address, but think that you may be saving someone who you will never meet. Most companies have an email of abuse@.... But check the specific site for the exact address.

Already did, jedijeff, thanks! I always try to forward scam e-mails like that to the actual company they are trying to represent. I feel it's the least I can do to help the companies out in fighting this stuff.

5 bonus points for suebee. :D

At the bank I work at, we have a special department that handles those phishing emails. They also handle those Mexican lottery scams, Nigerian email scams, and that horrible cashiers check thing going around. This time of year, we see alot more of those cashiers checks floating around. Now, we have to ask everyone with a cashiers check about how they received it and what it was for. Some people think we're being nosey, but once we explain why we ask, they're ok with it. The latest one I've seen is when people post on Craigs list for a roomate, and they get a check from some yahoo that wants to move in. It's pretty sad. Once you endorse the back of a check (personal or cashier's check), you're accepting ownership of that item. Even if it turns out that you got scammed. The banks go after these low-lifes with a vengence, though. They've lost MILLIONS becuase of these guys.

Also around holidays is when you see all of these new ones coming out of the closet. I think that some ppl just sit @ home all day trying to come up with a way to steal ppl's money..LOSERS

Isn't that crazy? I find that absolutely abhorrent - that and hackers who sit around finding new ways to create e-mail viruses to cause damage to the most computers possible, in the widest area possible. Do these people not have a JOB??? or a LIFE, for that matter??

It is really pothetic. I got a email like this but it was from a different bank, and I replied with "TAKE A HIKE". Yea, I know that was rude, but I haven't got anymore..

I like clicking on the link to go to their fake website. Then, when you get the login box, I enter the foulest, rudest words I can think of and hit submit. The phishers are usually in a hurry, so you can enter anything you want into the test boxes, cuz they won't create them and numbers only or stuff like that.

Also, some are so dumb that if you view the page source, you can see the email address that you will be "submitting" your information. Always nice to pass that on to the FBI.

Very good way of handling that, Jeff!

Oh, I know, Sue. For awhile, we had viruses going around at work. These people started sending e-mail, making it look like co-workers were sending it to us. We were only allowed to open mail that had a specific sentence in the subject line. It was awful.

We got a virus in our network at work and the whole national network for my company was shut down for a week! Our clinicians are now charting on laptops in the field and some were actually confused at first when IT told them they couldn't bring in anything from home to download on them! Duh!!! But what's really a pain is when you have a worm.

kscornell - I had that - cost me $70 in a visit to the local computer guy to have it removed. It was a "japanese worm", he said.

My computer would be humming along just fine, then all of a sudden, a little skull and crossbones would pop up and a message would appear that said "smiley says not today!" And then it would start eating files.

That sounds scary!!!

OMG...that's terrible. It kinda creeps me out to know that there are ppl out there that don't have anything better to do than steal and ruin ppl's computers and info...

I guess I should be thankful it didn't cost me more than $70 and some frustration over lost files. It could have been SO much worse.

It scares with with all of these viruses and hackers trying to get people's info. As a matter of fact, I had to leave my computer off for a week b/c my Norton Antivirus had expired and I had to wait until I got paid to renew it. I'm very faithful when it comes to doing my weekly virus scans.

I do virus scans every three days. For some reason I will be going along and the computer will shut down and restart. I have checked for viruses and infections and come up clean, so I'm really at a loss as to what to do.

My husband and I feel for the Bank of america scam back in November of 2006. About $900 was taken out of our account at first but not all at once. My husband is a trucker so I didn't pay much attention at first to the fact of these charges from all over, but then I noticed some happened when he was at home so I investigated. Then another $900 came out in three transactions that caused a bunch of checks and debit purchases to bounce(christmas presents) I was livid that BofA had allowed this to continue eventhough we had turned in all the other charges a few days before. The really bad thing is, BofA held US responsible!!! They never recovered any of our money and they charged us over $1000 in bank NSF fees. We opened an account with a new bank and refused to pay the NSF to Bank of america, but it caused checks to go to the DA locally for nsf that we had to deal with and now if something were to happen we wouldn't be able to get a checking with a new bank I'm sure because BofA probably turned us into Chexsystems. They finally wrote off the NSF, but whos to day they won't still come after us.

If you do need to open a new bank account, please come back to this site and let me know. You can PM me and I can help you find a bank in your area. There are still banks out there that don't use chexsystems!

These things are all over. We get them all the time here at work. We just delete them. Some of the banks that we supposedly get these from are banks I nor my co-workers have heard from.