Scam Alert - Chase banking

domino · August 2010

Alert to any people doing their banking with Chase.

Text states that card is restricted and to please contact (number)@chase.com. Canned message (in a Brit accent) requests you to enter the card number.
HA! What else should I provide pray tell?

I sent an email to report the scam to Chase and also called to report it.
Appears that these messages went out over the weekend and some people were duped.

Just a heads up.

jeffrey · August 2010

Was there any phone number given?

(either as the "from" for the text or perhaps a phone number you were supposed to call?)

cool the kid · August 2010

I got that, but in my lack of motivation didn't do anything with it. Chase mainly contacts me by email anyway so I know a text was fishy as fuck.

domino · August 2010

Yes there was a phone number given - with an 818 area code.

When I called the Report Abuse number at Chase the rep advised that Chase normally only notifies via email - unless other options were selected by the consumer.

Unfortunately some people just don't think - assume if they bank at Chase and the text came thru on their cell with a chase.com address it must actually be form Chase.

jeffrey · August 2010

818-864-3253, perhaps?

http://mrnumber.com/1-818-864-3253

All kinds of other hits in Google for it:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=818+chase+scam

whynot_31 · August 2010

818 is assigned to Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.

....yet another reason to dislike those LA people.

jeffrey · August 2010

San Fernando Valley is the New Jersey of LA, with porn.

whynot_31 · August 2010

jeffrey wrote: San Fernando Valley is the New Jersey of LA, with porn.

New Jersey lacks porn?!

....yet another reason to hate New Jersey.

whynot_31 · August 2010

Breaker 19 to Drunken Revival
Come in DR.
Thread of interest in the Lounge.

Thead has gone off topic from phone scam to porn, argueably as a result of mod comment.

Conditions are favorable for posting extravaganza.

jeffrey · August 2010

The San Fernando Valley is the Hollywood (heck, Disneyland, for some...) of the porn production industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_Valley

The Valley became the pioneering region for producing adult films in the 1970s and since then has been home to a multi-billion dollar pornography industry earning the monikers

"Porn Valley",
"San Pornando Valley," or
"Silicone Valley"...

brokechick · August 2010

i got this text, but i don't have, nor have i ever had, an account with chase. it's a pretty poorly organized scam when you immediately reveal yourself as fraudulent by targeting people who can't be affected by your important account information. i am doubly annoyed because now i have to pay for a scammer's text message.

whynot_31 · August 2010

The valley does not need to put out a quality product, it knows that a percentage of the american public will want what it has to offer ....no matter how poorly made.

Brokechick, it costs them nothing to text everyone who has a cell phone number ....so even if only 00.00001% of the American public presently is smoking meth, receiving text messages AND simultaneoulsy has a Chase account.... they make money.

Jeffery, a quick (NOT AT WORK) search will likely confirm there seems to be a market out there for every naked woman (or man, or animal for that matter).

Porn and scams: With a big enough net, a customer is always snared.

jeffrey · August 2010

whynot_31 wrote: The valley does not need to put out a quality product, it knows that a percentage of the american public want something ....no matter how poorly made.

Sex and pizza, as the old saying goes.

And then there she was
Like double cherry pie
Yeah there she was
Like disco superfly
I smell sex and [pizza] here
Who's that lounging in my chair
Who's that casting devious stares
In my direction
Mama this surely is a dream

:-'

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