Scam Alert! You May THINK It's PayPal!

[Salomina27]

Ye thanks for the warning, we need to be constantly vigilant.

[Darthmatt]

In some cases the email address on mouseover will actually show a viable address. Mimicking a verified address is not difficult. The giveaway is usuallly the link in the email which on mouseover will be not quite right.

I've dealt with various anti-fraud depts on this kind of stuff before and paypal are generally pretty good, but in essence as you report and halt one offender another springs up. For every case that you spot and identify as a fraud you can almost instinctively know that some people will have been sucked in by panic or paranoia. The big companies do tend to send security mails and have notices on their site warning of things to look out for, but there is not a lot else they can do.

[FBNeNotes]

Just a heads-up...seems there's another scam hitting the internet today...just got this in the past hour:
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If you put your cursor over anything in your inbox that says PayPal and the email addy says:
paypal@e.paypal.com

and the subject line reads:
John Doe, important PayPal account update - your action required

DON'T open! Dump the trash....just FYI....

What everyone should do... do not click any links, just
Forward the email to.... spoof@paypal.com

These scam-spoofs have been going on since 2001 and multi hundreds have gone bye-bye.

[crafters_corner]

What everyone should do... do not click any links, just
Forward the email to.... spoof@paypal.com

These scam-spoofs have been going on since 2001 and multi hundreds have gone bye-bye.

I used to send these to spoof and they always replied. Just get so many of them now that I automatically delete along with the 'You have a tax refund' and Security alerts from must about every known bank in the UK!

On the subject of Nigeria, can't imagine why that was pulled. As far as I can remember, eBay had that pinned to the top of their forum. (Might be memory playing tricks).

[iwiw60]

On the subject of Nigeria, can't imagine why that was pulled. As far as I can remember, eBay had that pinned to the top of their forum. (Might be memory playing tricks).

Me, too. I do, however, want to publicly apologize to the OP of that thread in case my big red posting to that thread may have caused the problem...ooops!

[Rednosty]

The thread yesterday was pointing out that the crooks are Learning. For the emails I got had perfect spelling And looked so genuine especially as three came through with different subject lines all connected to the same thing. The simple truth is these emails MUST catch some people out or they (the crooks) would not still send them!

[RonOne]

Since I've stoped posting on eby,
I'm down to one or two spoofs a year on eby or Paypal.

[crafters_corner]

The thread yesterday was pointing out that the crooks are Learning. For the emails I got had perfect spelling And looked so genuine especially as three came through with different subject lines all connected to the same thing. The simple truth is these emails MUST catch some people out or they (the crooks) would not still send them!

I'm sure they DO catch some people out. And, to be honest, I was totally naive when I first got my computer. Had they been received then, I'm sure I would have clicked on them - and lived to regret it.