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And your bank makes it hard for you! Chase Bank sent me a (legitimate!) email this week saying "We've just intercepted a suspicious transaction and tried reaching you by phone but we couldn't. Please click here if you authorized it or click here if you didn't." And then the link threw up a security certificate error! If they hadn't had my name, four digits of my account number, and a number exactly matching the number Google had just emailed me to say "We tried charging you $523.25 for your AdWords account but it got denied by your bank" 2 hours earlier, I would have sworn it was the world's best phishing attempt.


It gets worse:

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2009/08/21/chase-insecure

Chase sent me this, too. If you visit the site in Chrome, it tells you it's a suspected phishing site.


You should submit that as a top-level HN story.


Yes, they're terrible at URLs too. Here's another case of something similar to your problem back in 2006.

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/03/10/banks-dont-hel...




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