more ways to screw you.

My credit card account is set up to view and pay my bills exclusively online, and I just got an email from Chase.com, my credit card company. I was surprised to see that it was under some dozen or so emails that i had already received. The email from Chase shows that it was sent some 12 hours ago. So what happens to an email you've just received that says it was sent 12 hours ago? Well it gets put in chronological order under the thirty some odd emails you've gotten since then. Translation... the scumbags at Chase have figured out a way to bury their credit card bill in your email inbox, and increase the chance of you incurring a $30 late fee. You see, if you had just received a few new emails from friends at the same time the email from Chase appeared, you would have no idea that you had also received an email from Chase, buried in your inbox and out of sight and that is the whole idea behind this deliberate scam. It's funny too that it was sent in the middle of the night, as most folks will turn on their computers in the morning and get a dirge of new emails all in a tidy group with the exception of a bill from their 'friendly' bank that will conveniently be shuffled into the depths of their inboxes.