PayPal Scam? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 160249 United States 11/20/2006 03:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Leeloo
User ID: 160305 United States 11/20/2006 03:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 83061 United States 11/20/2006 03:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 91633 United States 11/20/2006 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Mrdjs7
User ID: 153838 United States 11/20/2006 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Got an email from them this morning saying I had added new email account, BUT I had not. the email really looked official so I went to the site in the email to clear up the problem. Website looks EXACTLy like Paypal's. Quoting: egrannyInstead of taking me to email page they wanted all kinds of personal info - Name, credit card numbers etc, the whole works. Of course, I backed out immediately and gave them nothing. Has anyone else got one of these scam letters? Same thing happened to me..... Report it to PayPal as soon as possible. .........This Space For Rent......... |
egranny (OP) User ID: 160314 India 11/20/2006 04:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No did not delete. I have not reported it to paypal as of yet, but that is why I didn't delete. In case They wanted it. I have gotten many scam letters before, but this was the most realistic one ever. I am afraid the scammers will be very sucessful with this one - it looks so real, and can fool someone not very experienced with the internet. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 145817 Canada 11/20/2006 04:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 153296 United States 11/20/2006 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No did not delete. I have not reported it to paypal as of yet, but that is why I didn't delete. In case They wanted it. I have gotten many scam letters before, but this was the most realistic one ever. I am afraid the scammers will be very sucessful with this one - it looks so real, and can fool someone not very experienced with the internet. Quoting: egranny 160314happened to me too.....did good by not deleting it becasue paypal wanted the information. i forwarded it to them so they could bust the bastards. incidentally speaking i think i recieved one from bank of america. looking into that one too. they said my email had been changed i knew that was bullshit, so i went to the real site and nothing had changed for me. |
KY6 User ID: 160300 United Kingdom 11/20/2006 04:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Phishing bastards! I've had one from PayPal and one from Bank of America (don't even have an account with them ) Check your account, change your password to something really abominable with special characters, numbers and upper and lower case letters. I(f it's to do with your cash then make sure every bank account credit card etc has a different password and regularly do a scan for worms and keyloggers and any other nasties. Also forward the e-mail to PayPal |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 119755 United States 11/20/2006 04:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
ThePatriot
User ID: 137970 United States 11/20/2006 04:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | eGranny, Follow this link and learn more about phishing aka spoofing. At the bottom of their page is a link that you can forward your email to. [link to www.paypal.com (secure)] Trinity is a greedy fuckhead that wants to steal your money!!!! |
TheRealPayPalCo.qom User ID: 160249 United States 11/20/2006 04:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 160337 United States 11/20/2006 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I get them almost daily. Forward them to [email protected] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 97470 United States 12/03/2006 06:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 165271 United States 12/03/2006 06:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Got an email from them this morning saying I had added new email account, BUT I had not. the email really looked official so I went to the site in the email to clear up the problem. Website looks EXACTLy like Paypal's. Quoting: egrannyInstead of taking me to email page they wanted all kinds of personal info - Name, credit card numbers etc, the whole works. Of course, I backed out immediately and gave them nothing. Has anyone else got one of these scam letters? I've gotten them before. It's called "phishing" The link the scam email "provides" goes to some phony website set up on a server in a third world country. You can see this link by moving your mouse icon over the link and it'll show up in display bar of your browser(on the bottom). It's obvious the link doesn't go to paypal.com. What the scammer counts on is the victim not paying attention to where the link goes or verifying whether the e-mail is really from Paypal. Of course PayPal clearly states that they don't send out e-mails asking for information. In it's basic structure, it's just a variation of the old "Bank of Nigeria" scam. |
C. User ID: 165298 United States 12/03/2006 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 97470 This is correct. Report it asap. I got two in two days. Paypal confirmed that they had not sent them. |
C. User ID: 165298 United States 12/03/2006 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 97470 This is correct. Report it asap. I got two in two days. Paypal confirmed that they had not sent them. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 165300 United States 12/03/2006 07:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
egranny User ID: 165302 India 12/03/2006 07:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 17410 United States 12/14/2006 01:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
know_one
User ID: 169435 United States 12/14/2006 06:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Got an email from them this morning saying I had added new email account, BUT I had not. the email really looked official so I went to the site in the email to clear up the problem. Website looks EXACTLy like Paypal's. Quoting: egrannyof course it does, it's a copy of their site. and stupid people do still bite on these scams. . ^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^**^^** so many conflicting conspiracy theories, so little evidence of any. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 169702 United States 12/14/2006 06:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
killdamon
User ID: 126286 United States 12/14/2006 09:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a really good paypal scam. I was the victim this time. Here's what you do. Sign up for a paypal account with an unconfirmed address. Just use your credit card and you can be a member of paypal. Then, buy something (preferrably big dollar value) from an honest seller on ebay. A few weeks later, when you have the item in hand, contact your credit card company (through whom you have your paypal account). File for a chargeback through your credit card. Claim something lame, like item wasn't as described. Then, sit back and wait for your credit card to do their dirty work. They contact paypal, paypal takes the money right out of the sellers account....AND you don't even have to return the item. Double whammy. Some white trash filth named Pam Campbell in Alabama pulled this scam on me. She got her money back and got to keep the item I sold her on ebay. Merry fucking Christmas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17410Yep, some asshat tried that one on me too, but they got fooled ! I have a separate bank account for paypal ebay transactions, when i sell something and recieve payment with paypal i immeadiatly do a transfer from the ebay/paypal bank account into my regular account, that way if some asshat tries to do a chargeback like that there won't be anything in that account. But paypal can be asstards and cancell or restrict you're account. Some good info here : [link to www.paypalsucks.com] . P.s. - always get somesort of proof of shipping, ie, recipt, tracking # ect. . Just passing thru. OG id 126286 NasTraDooMis |
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