Now I've heard everything! Chase's Online Department sent me an email asking me to complete a five-question survey to get $50 credited to my account. Since when do banks give away money for people doing surveys?
Well, nothing's impossible, but this email was a fraud, and we sure hope you didn't waste time completing the survey. If you had, you're likely to be losing more than a few precious minutes -- at least until you convince your bank to reimburse you!
If you clicked on the link in that email message, you would not have been taken to a Chase web site. It would have looked like a Chase site, and the first couple of questions would have seemed innocent enough, but instead of Chase, you would be providing information to a scam artist in China. If you completed the survey, you'd find that the only way to get your $50 reward would be to provide some of the keys to your financial identity -- your Chase user ID and password, your Chase credit card number, expiration date and three-digit security number, your social security number, ATM PIN, zip code, mother's maiden name, and email address.
Does it smell fishy -- correction, phishy -- enough to you now? Aren't you glad you didn't finish the survey?
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Well, nothing's impossible, but this email was a fraud, and we sure hope you didn't waste time completing the survey. If you had, you're likely to be losing more than a few precious minutes -- at least until you convince your bank to reimburse you!
