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UPDATE: The FBI is looking into at least thirty suspicious letters sent to nine Chase banks around the country.

Police investigators say letters contained an unknown powder inside. The Postal Service says so far they don’t believe the powder is harmful.

Inside the letters were also threats about the economy.

The letters were mailed to Chase bank branches in or near Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Washington.

Investigators say the letters all appear to be from the same source and were sent from Texas.

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Ten branches of Chase (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) bank in Colorado and Oklahoma received threatening letters on Monday, some containing a harmless white powder.

An FBI spokeswoman said seven banks in the Denver area got letters, along with three in Oklahoma.

“Based on our investigation, the suspicious substance appears to be non-hazardous,” FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright said. She did not identify the powder or elaborate on the nature of the threat.

A spokeswoman for Chase said the letters were delivered to branches in the Denver area and in Oklahoma City and Norman, Oklahoma.

Some of the envelopes contained the white powder, Chase spokeswoman Mary Jane Rogers said, and one employee was treated for a rash as a precaution.

She identified two suburban Denver branches as being in Lakewood and Arvada.

Kevin Ferry, a Denver area fire marshal, identified a third in Centennial. Several bank employees there were evaluated at a hospital and released, he said.

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