| Author | Message | ||
     Davegess |
There is a new phisihg email making the rounds. Claiming to be from Pay Pal. I only mention it because it is very well done with a well written letter and a very well done web site. They also send you more than one notice so a person could fall for it. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Thanks for the tip Davegess. I'll take this a bit further. Here is how you can completely avoid all financial email scams. Step 1: When you get a message that appears to be from Paypal, your bank, any bank, any financial institution, DELETE it. Step 2: Close all web browsers and email clients and then log in to the website of the company the message came from. If there is a real message from them, you will find it on their website. Follow those two steps and you'll never fall prey to a phishing scam. Paypal, Ebay, and others like them will NEVER contact you via email for ANYTHING important. Everything you need from them is on their website. I mention Paypal and Ebay specifically because they seem to be the most frequent and widespread phishing targets. Be careful out there. | ||
| Firebolteric_ma |
so many email scams from those two groups. I personally never open any of them emails. Pwnzor has the best method to avoid these. BE CAREFUL!! | ||
| Southern Marine |
I got that one from Paypal. I read it and thought, hmmm now why would Paypal send this to my yahoo account when I have my paypal linked to my gmail, better yet, how would they know what my yahoo account is.  My wife saw it and was a bit worried. When I told her what it was she was a bit shocked. I've received both emails from them. | ||
| Court |
Truer words have not been spoken. I am getting several a week and these are dandies! DELETE. | ||
| Jackbequick |
Matt has it right, PayPal will never ask you to go to your account and verify or confirm your account details. Just as a habit, I view all those phishing emails as ASCII text with full headers and forward them with attachments inline to spoof@paypal.com. You never know when they may be working on the culprits on these, the ISP's that the emails come from are starting to be held accountable for the actions of their users. Anyone getting caught or punished is a long shot but it might help. Sending suspicious emails to fraud@ or abuse@ or webmaster@ is another option. Jack (Message edited by jackbequick on August 22, 2006) | ||
| Cochise |
If the email gives your given name or your business name, you are fine, otherwise it's scam. That is from their website. BTW, this isn't new, I get 10-15 a day, literally. | ||
| Kdan |
Yep, pwnzer is right. I get many phish and some of them are downright ingenious. I forward them to spoof @ ebay . com or spoof @ paypal . com. right after I send them a 10gig video attachment. Twice. | ||
| Bueaddicted |
I also have received them, but I just forwarded them to Paypal security - they have a special website just for these e-mails. I've also received some from banks where I have accounts. I just delete them or forward them to the proper authorities. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I've been getting so many over the years that I keep them all in one folder, sorted by sender. Then each month or so, I forward whole blocks of them to ebay, paypal or the FBI if it's one of those nigerian banker deals. That way I'm not doing it every single day. My email client does most of the sorting for me. | ||
| Cyclonedon |
I had this happen to me also and I called Pay-Pal. The told me to NEVER use the link on these emails and to forward them to spoof@paypal.com then DELETE them! |
