I don’t have a Washington Mutual Account!!
What is the deal? The past four days I think I have gotten about twenty emails telling me that many different people have been trying to log into my Washington Mutual account with the wrong logins. The spelling alone certainly makes it VERY official - take the following for instance: “If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.” So, I have promptly followed the link, input my social security number, my bank account number, my check routing number, my billing address, my credit card number, my mother’s maiden name, and my blood type. Honestly! Let me know if you need all of that information from me - if you would just set up some very unprofessional website with a few boxes that I could input that information, I’d be happy to get that information to you. But, at least make it with a bank that I actually do business with! OK, enough of that, I do just think it is pretty hilarious!
Man, I know what you mean. This summer I got one of those emails from US Bank, so I went to their real website and found their customer service email address and forwarded the email to them. They replied and told me that it was a scam. I was just worried that some one had opened an account in my name and that it was getting hacked. This fall I got a few more of those from different banks.
Comment by philip — January 21, 2005 @ 4:31 pm
I’ve likewise received similar emails. Cyberspace is an unforgiving place for the gullible.
Comment by Brian Clifton — January 27, 2005 @ 11:32 am