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Title: How to protect against scam Post by: Gunfighter Frank on April 16, 2007, 12:29:17 PM I just got an Email from someone that looked just like it was from PAYPAL requesting that I update my account information. if you get one IT IS A SCAM Paypal does not request that from email. this did not have my name in it so it was not from PAYPAL. if you get one log into your paypal account like normal and check your information. and report the Email. to Spoof@paypal.com. I just got off the phone with the Paypal people, since all my scam alerts went off when I did click it. Remember if you have any questions call paypal. and use the normal paypal login do not click the link in the email. even though it says it is the same as the paypal link.
Title: Re: PAY PAL EMAIL SCAM Post by: SirEmi on April 16, 2007, 02:56:13 PM I can assure you it has nothing to do with Space Odyssey.
A few tips on how to spot those scammers: Paypal will never send you an email asking you to click a link to login, if you receive a checkout link, always make sure the link starts with www.paypal.com. If the link is an IP address, or something else than www.paypal.com, then it is spam / scam. If you receive an email like that, check the full headers, it should show the originating server that sent the email, send the headers to paypal security or one of the anti-spam sites, they should deal with them swiftly. There are spammers that will gather email addresses in order to send those spam emails, they don't know if you have paypal or not, they just spam a couple million emails hoping to scam someone. It's called phishing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing) Article on how to spot email phishing: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishing.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishing.mspx) God Speed commanders! Title: Re: How to protect against scam Post by: BadGuy on April 16, 2007, 04:46:37 PM I've seen many of these and even ones supposedly from banks.
Never click on links in e-mail but use a new window and type in URL directly to websites. Title: Re: How to protect against scam Post by: djjcuk on April 16, 2007, 08:56:11 PM Hey guys... I just got that... thanks for the help!!! I wasnt sure whether it was a scam or not... :2: but now I know... thanks... :19:
Title: Re: How to protect against scam Post by: Smee on April 18, 2007, 03:14:14 AM ouch paypal is being phished now that sucks monkey ballz
i know myspace is huge for that crap be careful be safe and if at the end of the url says .html its probably a fake and also i would recommend mozilla firefox over IE just an opinion not here to start a fanboy flaming over the 2 SmeeZus |