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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bayushi Seikuro" data-source="post: 1830293" data-attributes="member: 23328">Yeah... that's that whole phishing thing.Like someone pointed out, the point of it is to get credit card numbers, SSNs, etc...  it's a spray-and-pray thing, where they mass-send it out, and then wait for that miniscule amount of people to fall for it, and then wham. They have your (in this case) Citibank info.The scary thing is they'll often have a link that LOOKS like it goes to CB's official page, designed to look official and everything, like a direct copy of that site.Like someone said before, if they send out 100,000 and get 100 to respond and fall for it, they make money.  I'd read an article on it online, I believe at slashdot, and they pointed out that not all of these scams milk you for all of your cash at once; this one lady was having a dollar something taken out every now and then, and then they took a few hundred.  If they do it in smaller amounts, a lot of people won't notice that their checkbook is off by 30 cents, for example.But, I digress.</blockquote>