The spam Chase

[davidlevine]

For some reason, the PayPal and eBay scams I am receiving have dropped away almost to nothing in the past few weeks, replaced by Chase bank scams. Today 28 out of 117 spams in my ISP's spam trap, and 2 out of 7 spams that slipped through the spam trap to my inbox, claimed to be from Chase (the majority of the ones in the spam trap were viruses). I'm seeing very little spam claiming to be from any other financial institution.

Anyone else seeing this?

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm getting a bunch of Chase phish as well, which is annoying because I do actually have a credit card account with Chase.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Same here with the Chase. The phishing attempts bother me more when I actually deal with the institution.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Much the same. I have Ebay and Paypal in my spam filter anyway, as I have no business dealings with them, but I get reports occasionally, and these sources have dropped lately. And I have gotten a lot of Chase spam in the last couple days. Additional reason to suspect that most of the spam engine is being driven by a very few people.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

A small group of people controlling a vast number of Windows boxes that have been compromised.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Same pattern occurring in my email, too.

[luna-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm getting Barclays and HSBC bank scams, but that might be a side-effect of living in the UK.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I'm in the UK too, but I get a lot of spam from "Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken AG", for some reason.

[ssprince.livejournal.com]

Paypal & e-bay have dropped off slightly if at all; besides a lot of Chase I get some "from" Wells Fargo.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'm noting the same thing, bank-wise. But the number of spams I'm getting that have "C*M LIKE A PORN STAR" have increased in direct proportion. As well as the number of "Ultimate Pharmaceutical Site" spameroonies.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

PayPal and eBay phishes have reduced in volume though I still get enough PayPal phishes each day that I've created a folder into which I drop such messaages. The folder has an automatic rule which forwards each message to "spoof@paypal.com" and then deletes the message.

I've seen a lot more Chase phishes in the past week than I have in a long time. Also a lot of onesie/twosie phishes for banks I've never heard of, like "Citizen's Bank", "First Credit Union", etcetera.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Yes. I had been receiving around 20 to 30 a day for a week, however it has dropped off.

I'm wondering if this is related to the compromise of Chase accounts from last month?

Someone has a bunch of accounts, and needed to phish for credentials?

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what's going on. Truly annoying to those of us with a Chase account as you can't declare it spam because you actually DO get genuine mail from Chase. Dammit.

MKK

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Same pattern here -- and they have my correct e-mail from my credit card account. Very odd, that last.

[safewrite.livejournal.com]

yes, me too