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Apr. 4th, 2006 08:06 amSo I have noticed something funny: about 50% of the spam I get on a given day is ostensibly from Chase Bank. The details are different, but the point is always the same -- "we need to verify your data, blah blah blah." As it happens, I don't have an account there, so it's not like they're targeting me specifically. Does anyone else have this experience? Are Chase Bank customers known for being especially susceptible to phishing? Or is this some bizarre cosmic coincidence?
Or maybe it's about the big-ass data security breach that happened last summer that involved, among other institutions, JP Morgan Chase. If you assume that there are at least some Chase customers out there with a little knowledge of recent events and not a lot of internet experience, it could be a viable strategy. But why not Citicorp or MBNA? Why is it all-Chase, all the time?
(Hmm; come to think of it, Chase ate Bank One, where I used to have an account, many years ago. But they wouldn't have had an email address for me; so I still think it's proper to assume this is a wide, randomly-cast net.)
Or maybe it's about the big-ass data security breach that happened last summer that involved, among other institutions, JP Morgan Chase. If you assume that there are at least some Chase customers out there with a little knowledge of recent events and not a lot of internet experience, it could be a viable strategy. But why not Citicorp or MBNA? Why is it all-Chase, all the time?
(Hmm; come to think of it, Chase ate Bank One, where I used to have an account, many years ago. But they wouldn't have had an email address for me; so I still think it's proper to assume this is a wide, randomly-cast net.)
