By Staff
What a shame. Comerica Bank is going to cancel its online banking account. All personal information must be given again within 48 hours. Wait, I don't have an account with them, or with Wells Fargo or the other numerous banks which have contacted me on my work email, not even using my name.
Why don't these scammers quit. Enough already.
They are so sophisticated the bank logos look identical to the real thing.
A very well educated man admitted on radio the other morning, he was taken in by one of these scams. He had recently purchased an item over the Internet and he received a notice asking for verification from what looked to be a legitimate web site where he banks.
In the middle of doing other things, he quickly filled in the blanks which asked for his account numbers, social security and other information.
Bingo. This man lost his identity to a scammer and has been trying to dig his way out ever since.
I also hate how they are able to pick up names from your email to make the tag or subject line seem personal. A message from someone who sounds like a client or customer needs to be read, instead of being deleted without even taking the time to open it.
Once about four years ago I bought something on eBay using PayPal.
Now, daily I get notices asking me to verify a transaction purchasing a computer for a man in California, or a cell phone for someone else in Maine.
I still don't have that credit card I used years ago for that transaction.
I am so tired of having to clear out my email of dozens of these "important notices" to sift through to the press releases I really need.
Occasionally I accidentally delete an announcement which has to be in the paper.
After deleting a message, I have to delete it again, verifying I really do want to delete it. More time, besides filling my precious space in my computer.
Someone told me these scams are originating in China, by those who are trying to steal the identities of people in America. I don't know if this is true.
What I do know is if I am spending a portion of my day deleting these notices, others in the office are also receiving these time wasting messages.
If you add my time to all those others in the office, and multiply all this time being wasted by all the other offices, those who are sending this spam is having a huge impact on our society. Productive time is being wasted.
Just 10 minutes a work day would result in more than 43 hours a year. That is one entire week a year for just me. My company is paying me a week's salary just to dump email!
Multiply that by all the other employees. Multiply that number by all of the employees in a town – in a state – in the country.
Something needs to be done, but unfortunately that also costs the companies money, such as better filters, programs which keep you from ever seeing the scams.
I don't believe government is always the answer, but we can't let these people consume our productive time.
It is bad enough to answer the phone and hear nothing. They dial lots of numbers connecting with a few, letting you hear dead space until a recorded voice comes on asking you to please wait.
Is our time worth nothing? Once it is gone it can never be replaced.