Today I received a scam mail from a fake paypal company saying that I had been sent a payment for 93 dollars. This was odd I thought since I couldn't recall selling something for 93 dollars. Anyway at first glance the mail looked legit but there was something about it that didn't seem right. So off to my real Paypal account via the internet not the mail link, to check my account. Sure enough there was no mention of the 93 dollars. So I checked out the mail then realised it was fake. Wrong font used, sender is from Paypal not the actual person who sent the payment and the link does say paypal.com BUT the http is a standard one, not https like the official Paypal site. Take a look. Be careful everyone ! Yakumo
Good catch man. Its great to have people who aleart others when they discover this kind of thing. I would have checked my balance to find it wasent a real deposit, but then I would have contacted paypal. I doubt I would have picked it out as a fake as you did.
well I put the now defunct e-mail for my Paypal account so when I receive this kind of e-mail I know for sure it's fake coz the e-mail linked to my Paypal is no longer active on my server. The downside is I need to check my Paypal from time to time but since I always keep my Paypal at zero balance it's no biggie...
I'll give you points, but you should note a few things. 1: They only faked the FROM header... this is very easy. 2: Whomever owns paypal.com owns paypal.com... no matter what the protocol is (http:// or https://). The latter is just a secure connection to the exact same place. Look at the full name of the domain: It is actually: http://www.paypal.com.cgi-bin.webscr.cmd.login-run.com/ If you go to this page, you see the default Apache2 "this is a webpage" page. By the sound of it, had they simply required SSL to connect to their domain, they would've got you. My rule? Very simple, and very effective. Don't ever click Paypal, bank, ebay links out of email. Most of these sites have everything you need on your welcome page. Spend the 2 seconds it takes to fire up your browser, go there manually and log in.
I have been getting something similar for several months and assumed everyone would be aware of it. A new one I have just started getting is slightly different as the emails are a fake dispute console email. I.e. "seller requires that you discuss the issue" and there are 2 hyperlinks embedded in the email. For a year or so I'd get the "Have you sent me the item" emails from eBay (again fake). I agree with GP. Never open a link for anything that could screw you from your email account. Log in via direct means and deal with things that way. That's like lesson 1 of safe online usage.
I just got a new fake email from ebay. Actually, the email isn't fake. It's really from eBay from an eBay member. Here's the message: --- [FONT=Arial, Verdana]Hello, My name is Colin Stanfield. I just saw this item of yours and I remember seeing the same item two days ago, take a look: http://202.49.244.20/ebay/?signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&co_partnerId=2&pUserId=&siteid=0[/FONT] --- Usually I just let my mouse pointer hover over the link to see what it reads....usually it's a link like the above. I've reported him to eBay. This isn't the first time someone has sent me a real eBay email trying to get me to log in. I've even had one where it wasn't a real eBay email but the scammer inserted the name of one of my products into the eBay lookalike email....
Service@paypal.com does occasionally send money. If you use them to ship USPS here in the states and get a refund they are the ones who issue it, however you would be expecting such a payment.
Hehe Good ole scams. If you want fun emails. I've gotten emails in my box that the to address is my email address and it's worded lke I wrote my self an email to remind me of the great deals (insert site) is having on (crap/penis or boob pills/porn).
actually I once spend some time to follow those links and enter all the information they require such as yourb*msmells/yourm*msucks and etc. as ID/PW combo... of coz I was using a PC from the Internet Cafe and yes we were really bored after couple of hours of net multi-play session... ^ ^
I'm all for baiting, any Nigerian scammers that email me get a response just to delay them. If everyone did it they'd stop as the chance of success would drop to zero. Same goes for cold callers, just ask them to hold and leave the phone off the hook for a bit.
I have had scam sent to my email address I used to get the same emails 2/3 times in a month pretending to be from the bank but considering they were from The bank of scotland and i am with The Royal bank of scotland i found weird and the address being so long with a foriegn .jp or something and having the http\\ www. bank of scotland .co.uk or whatever right at the end. Apart from it being useless to me as that wasn't my bank i used it kinda got annoying getting the same scam email all the time
I don't know if anyone has ever seen this site, but a guy in England likes to play around with the Nigerian scammers: http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm He gets them to send pictuers of themselves and has even gotten money from the actual scammers. Click on the links at top to read about how he's strung along a few of them. He even has audio recordings of phone calls...
