Scam Centier Bank

[Gingergirl]

My daughter just me sent me this:

I just got a crazy spam message! Centier bank sent me a message saying there was unusual activity on my account for $121 from sugarcoatbeauty. It was from a 219 area code number. I never used centier so when I clicked on the link, it took me to a centier bank log in page but the website was sugarcoatbeauty.com not centier! Looked really convincing! If it was a bank I had used I might have fallen for it!

 

[summerthyme]

NEVER click on a link in an obvious SPAM message! If it only goes to a phishing site, you're lucky!

(And if you haven't ever had an account at a bank which is supposedly sending you a warning about account activity, that's as obvious as it gets!)

Summerthyme

 

[SmithJ]

As soon as you click on a link in a spam email you move to a higher priority for future spam emails. You will get more and more. Even if you don't do anything but click and look.

 

[phloydius]

As soon as you click on a link in a spam email you move to a higher priority for future spam emails. You will get more and more. Even if you don't do anything but click and look.

You don't even have to "look", just "clicking" guarantees more spam & scams. It adds you to a "known good" list of people who click.