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I had some free time so I thought I'd share one more today. This email showed up in my inbox and as you can see it is a VERY clever fake. It's almost as though they took an existing Chase email, and modified it for the information they wanted. The text shows up very small and i apologize but you get the idea. You can click on it to enlarge it.



This one was clever and I had to look it over twice. It has the Chase logo, the disclaimers, company phone numbers and addresses and even had my email address on it in two different places that i have blacked out. The first thing i did was checked the link. It looked legit, but it wasn't. I hovered over the link and at the bottom left of my screen it showed me a completely different link going to a privately own page designed to look like a Chase login page. It is easy enough to create a link on a webpage or email and make it look legit. Ever seen pages that say Click Here and when you click on it you are sent somewhere. Same concept, only where "Click Here" is, it can say www.chase.com and when you click on it, it can take you to a page that looks very similar to the Chase login page, but actually isn't. For example, look at this link but do not click on it: www.yahoo.com. Looks like you'd go to yahoo.com right? Now hover over that link with your mouse and check the bottom left of your screen. See how you can know where you're going before you go? Ok, back to the email lol. The BIG thing here is, banks do not ask you to verify your account information through email. You should not verify any account information, logins, passwords, account numbers for any company through email. On a side note, hovering over links to see where they go will save you hassle on many websites. Take facebook for example. How many times do we see on our friends walls "OMG click here you would not believe what this girl did on webcam!! http://bit.ly/g0FZaL " Now if you hovered over it like you should you'd see that it actually DOES go where I claim it does, BUTTT "bit.ly" is one of those sites that will let you shorten any link and it gives you that teeny tiny link to place instead. You will go to http://bit.ly/g0FZaL but the actual link it is connected to, who knows unless you click on it. (you can click on that link to see what I am talking about, i suggest you don't though unless you know me personally and know that I would not steer you wrong.) Be safe! Don't take chances on these if you see them on facebook or any other social networking site. Now if cnn.com posts a link on the page containing the bit.ly website, its more than likely legit. How do you know the difference? Trust your judgment. Titles like "OMG click here you would not believe what this girl did on webcam" are to try to suck you in so you just have to go see what it is, its like a car accident, everyone has to stop down and see. If you do click on one and it takes you somewhere you shouldn't be, close the page and run your virus scan. Sorry this one was a lot of reading, but examples help show what i'm talking about sometimes lol. Comments welcome!