Author Topic: Paypal phishing (Read 75 times)

grateful · « **on:** October 10, 2007, 05:21:17 AM »

I received an email phishing for my paypal password telling me my account was suspended for security reasons. As this is the only site where anyone could obtain my email address (from my user profile), I just wondered if any of you others here present had been similarly phished? I didn't fall for it by the way.

Mark

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2007, 05:47:13 AM »

It's a rare day that I don't get e-mail both from PayPal security and e-bay unpaid item reminder. I opened the first e-bay one a couple of years ago; my antivirus blocked it, so I called a freind who's a professional geek. He assured me it was a common scam; now they're deleted immediately.

Peter

bassman10096 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2007, 06:52:01 AM »

I've gotten the same messages from both Paypal and Ebay many times. What threw me off a little was one of the ones I got under Paypal's name really was legitimate (I wish I could remember what caused it, but it made sense in context of the transactions or account changes I had done at the time.).
I hope it's enough to protect me, but I just follow the advice Paypal and Ebay both give: Never, Never click the link in an Email and then sign in to the service. By the time you've done that, your password and username are in hostile hands.

lbpesq · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2007, 07:11:42 AM »

The key is to NEVER click on the link in the email. When I get these (often), first I look at the address. If it's addressed to Paypal customer it's definitely a fraud. If it's addressed to me personally, and I have reason to believe it might be real (I get these from banks where I don't even have an account!), I go to my Paypal account through my browser, NOT through the email link, and check it out. I also win at least four lotteries a week that I never entered, at least 3 people a week from Africa want to send me $25,000,000.00, Women all over the country want to meet me, I can get all the cialis I want, and I am often given the opportunity to make my breasts/penis bigger. Ain't the internet grand!

Bill, tgo

laytonco · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2007, 07:35:17 AM »

You know, I tried the breast enlargement stuff. It worked pretty well, but my wife didn't like em!

beelee · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2007, 04:42:37 PM »

Yeah I've gotten those emails too, I knew they were fakes, especially when the come to the email address that I don't use for Ebay and PayPal.......Duh !! I always report them to Ebay and PayPal etc. then I follow their links and give them some great passwords, names etc. just to screw with them. For Example: Michael Hunt 1313 Mockingbird Lane Intercourse Pa. telephone 867-5309 email: URA@jerko$$.com and some other nice made up info I won't repeat here..........LOL
B.