The e-mails circulating in recent days offer customers of Chase Manhattan Bank a 20 dollar "reward" for filling out on online survey, according to security firms that monitor such schemes.
The schemes are the latest variety of frauds known as "phishing," or luring users to fake websites to divulge personal or financial account information that can be used by hackers or for simple theft.
Experts at the British security firm Netcraft said the users responding to the fake Chase e-mails first detected Saturday were "directed to sites hosted on IP addresses assigned to The China Construction Bank (CCB) Shanghai Branch."
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