CitiBank-- 3 or more scam emails per day

Whoson1st · Nov 11, 2004

I have never had an account at this bank wherever it is. It must be one of the giants out there. But for about a month now, I'm averaging 3 emails a day telling me to either confirm my acct info. OR some have the heading that my account is about to be closed!

I hope they fry these a## holes when they are caught.
It sure gets old!

BAUS · Nov 11, 2004

It is most likely NOT Citibank sending you those emails.

It is probably some scammers trying to get an ususpecting customer to enter their account numbers, passwords, etc. into their fake email.

Most of those emails are FAKE. How often does your real bank send you an email to confirm your info or sell you something? They usually call you in my experience....

Watch out for phoney emails!

BAUS

FairWarning · Nov 11, 2004

Those are spoofs and you might want to contact Citicorp. They are very aggressive on these matter.

I would use spybot or ad-aware. By opening those emails, you told the people sending them that your inbox is active. The junk email and potential identity theft would be a nightmare to you.

Whoson1st · Nov 11, 2004

I NEVER open ANY of these emails. (I'm simply reading what is on the Subject line).

I know they are "spoofs"? I must not be the only one getting them. Most do NOT even have my email address on it--but show up in my inbox.

Something has to be passed that will put a serious punishment on ALL these Damn Scammers!!!!!!!

PeteRoseJR · Nov 11, 2004

i get the exact same emails and I also do not have a citibank account..WTF is Citibank...I saved them if you ever need them.

TheGeneral+ · Nov 12, 2004

These are scammers trying to get your private info. They are doing with Discover and MBNA as well.

WorldRunner · Nov 12, 2004

I work for "one of those mega banks" that you referred to and there's no point in passing the info on. These banks are constantly working on this. It's called "phishing" and it's VERY popular amongst scammers right now. It's been going on for 10+ years too but the extent of the scams at that time were getting passwords. Now that everything is online scammers are attempting to get paypal and other financial institution logins.

Basically...rule of thumb... never follow a link in email. If Paypal emails you stating they need you to update your account information then just go to www.paypal.com yourself and see if there's something on your account to update. There won't be.

In this case though... The bank isn't responsible. The Customer should accept the responsibility of being saavy enough to know when they're being scammed.