I just received a text message from CHASE (SMS@chaseonline.chase.com / Message from JP Morgan Chase.) saying that I needed to contact them about my account and providing a phone number 877-293-5089. You get a computer that asks for your account number to activate your card and then your expiration date.
Knowing that this is crap, I entered bogus numbers, but it stopped after the expiration date, so I could not find out whether it was going to ask for a pin.
RULE #1 – If your bank contacts you by SMS – it is a FRAUD.
RULE #2 – If your bank contacts you, ask for the name of the person – ask for their phone number and tell them you will call back. DO NOT call back on the number they gave you; instead type that phone number into Google search bar and see what comes up. If you do call your bank use the number on the back of your card and ask to verify the name of the person you had spoken with. If it is fraudulent report it. With a phone number it is possible for the bank to trace the crooks.
Read this from my Google Search HERE. “Just called the number, it is fraudulent, don't give them your number. When you call it says "You're account is restricted please enter your account number and press the # key" When you put in the 14 digit number it says unable to activate the account, please call a customer representative 24/7and then it hangs up, didn't even give another number to call. Also called Chase to report the phone number. Hopefully they'll be about to take down the perpetrator quickly.”
Chase even details this here.
Oh, by the way… I don’t have a CHASE account but have had this happen for all the major banks including my bank – you know it’s name…Bank of It’s None of Your Business. Yes, that one.
Now… IT IS TIME TO GET EVEN. If everyone reading this CALLS that number above the company will get billed for that call. Since it is a toll free number you won’t charged but with enough people calling in that can add up for them. Don’t SCAM me morons…I am not in the mood!
Feel free to do this for ANYONE scamming you at an 800 number. Even if a live person answers to try and deceive you, you know how to get even.
Read THIS article about the costs of these scams. Hey, who needs a real job when you can just rip people off. And we wonder about the state of our society. In the middle east – these guys would have no hands left….
MisterWriter

3 comments:
MisterWriter,
Just tried to call the number and I got the message that the number was no longer in service.
Hi Sherry,
Geeeeee.... I wonder why! Thanks to all who called. Given the amount of bad press on various sites I'm sure they got the clue.
It is a useful trick to remember though!
Interesting, ran into this report about the same phone number also:
http://callercenter.com/877-293-5089.html
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