Newest PayPal Scam

[swimjenni]

I received an email that looked almost real from paypal a few minutes ago for a charge of $275. After typing and loggin into paypal.com I saw that the transaction was not real. The only thing on this email that gives it away is it is made of mostly images and has a dispute transaction link at the bottom.

 

[lpstong]

Yes this happens quite often. Thats why I rarely do a click through via email. I go directly to the website and login from there for reasons stated like yours. This way it is one less way for my info to get stolen.

 

[Gandhi]

very simple, when you get an e-mail from either paypal or ebay forward it to [email protected] and with in a few minutes PP will tell you if its from them or spam

 

[Mr Blockeel]

very simple, when you get an e-mail from either paypal or ebay forward it to [email protected] and with in a few minutes PP will tell you if its from them or spam

wow, didn't know that

will use it a lot, don't want to lose money

 

[circa1850]

Yes this happens quite often. Thats why I rarely do a click through via email. I go directly to the website and login from there for reasons stated like yours. This way it is one less way for my info to get stolen.

A practice everyone should do but, sadly, do not.

I can not count the number of people I know or know of who have blindly revealed their paypal or ebay information and have had their accounts taken over.

Lately they are so easy to spot because of the varying type sizes in the same sentence, the numerous spelling errors, and the use of non western characters.

 

[antec]

I dont understand why people do this. Do they feel like going to jail for fraud and gettin bum raped

 

[accent]

There is a spoof@ebay(dot)com for the eBay ones - or just go to the messages section in "my eBay" and if it is not in there it usually is bogus - but I got a survey a few weeks ago that was not in "my eBay" but was confirmed to be real by eBay.

During the last round of price rises a lot of people sent the emails with the bad news to spoof@ebay --- kinda a joke, kinda a protest.

 

[YesBrilliant]

I dont understand why people do this. Do they feel like going to jail for fraud and gettin bum raped

The problem is that most live in a country where laws are rarely enforced.

So, they think: "what do I have to loose?"

Well, sometimes they loose, and loose badly. Like in this thread: http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/265292-scam-nigerian-email-scammers-caught-video.html

And what we should do is fight back, by educating other people.

 

[Fka200]

BUMP - Received a scam email this morning and it looked legit --- I didn't fall for it, but was impressed with the skills of the scammers.

Was just going to post this up, but bumping this thread is just as good since it has already been posted :ghost:

 

[gammo]

I have had a lot of these spoof messages too and forwarded them to Paypal. A word to anyone who may have been fooled by these scammers:

Log into your Paypal account immediately and change your password. If you wait too long, your account will be taken over by these thieves.

Another way to identify these emails as being fake is by simply doing a mouseover of the links in the email. Most times it shows another URL that most times does not even have the word Paypal in it. I looked at one once and it showed something like [TEXT]http://russhy.com:8080/stats.edi.ru/redir?=677y8mnvn[/TEXT] (TEXT is used to prevent automatic hyperlinking). If that is not suspicious, I don't know what is. All these links do is redirect you to a site that captures your username and password. If you have clicked on any of the links in these spoof emails, remember to login to Paypal and change your password now!

 

[WiiSaid]

No this is the newest paypal scam.

My mom is dying if you send me 100$ to my paypal I will magically cure her and then refund you 10000$. Do you beleive it. PM me for my paypal info

 

[hadrick]

I received an email that looked almost real from paypal a few minutes ago for a charge of $275. After typing and loggin into paypal.com I saw that the transaction was not real. The only thing on this email that gives it away is it is made of mostly images and has a dispute transaction link at the bottom.

I would recommend that you change your password as early you can. Most of the time, they do send these spam emails to spoof the passwords. But those people send these emails can be easily identified by any spam controller. If you are using some free mail services like yahoo, gmail then you shouldn't have to think anymore for these but if you are using yours then i would recommend you install spamassasign to protect those spams.

Spam filter will protect them through the header recognization automatically. Their header and paypal header has some big differences

Best Regards

 

[DylanButler]

These guys never get me but one time I almost started logging in when a scammer used subdomains to mimic ebay's URL fairly well (the URL started with something like http://my.ebay.myAsapi.dll.domain.com?string=AhnW98jsxZX9 etc etc).. and then my IE7 phishing filter popped up and confirmed that it was indeed a scam.

 

[antec]

those videos are crazy, the laptop on was pretty funny also.

I had a large community site before and some guy was sending messages like that to all my users.

there welfare bums :hehe:

 

[nmr86]

thanx for sharing !!

 

[TheWatcher]

This kind of scam, they come and go. This kind of people, use their marketing skills to scam other. Why not use it in a productive way?

 

[circa1850]

This kind of scam, they come and go. This kind of people, use their marketing skills to scam other. Why not use it in a productive way?

Bilking millions of dollars is pretty productive:hehe:

Plus, the majority of them never get caught. Very crafty, very much a couple of steps ahead of the authorities and PayPal itself. Send out one message, gets wiped off, and sending out more.

I have three different PayPal accounts for three seperated ventures so imagine how much of this crap I get a day in seperate email boxes.

I usually log in with some of the most crude, nastiest, foul language user names and passwords...AND THEY ARE ACCEPTED!

Do you think a legit PayPal email would do that?

 

[GR8SHAYAR]

Yes it happens hackers send such stupid mail like your account looked or confirm your order. even i received many fraud paypal emails asking me to confirm confirm money transaction . i noticed that there are similair stories on aboutpaypal.org" you should visit there for more information .http://www.aboutpaypal.org

 

[RDrapster]

I always report these to [email protected] and [email protected]. I get responses saying "GJ, this was a spoof, here's how to tell them in the future." but at least I know someone's looking at them.

Don't click that aboutpaypal.org site, it's just a bunch of whiners who got phished because they were stupid.