My wife opened an official looking e-mail from PayPal saying our account was being tampered with and asked us to log in so we could investigate further. I remembered reading about scams on this forum and headed her off just in time. One thing I noticed was the little security padlock icon was near the top of the page instead of the bottom right where it usually is. I contacted e-Bay and sure enough, it was a scam...I'd been "phished" and they wanted our log in name and password. Who knows what would have happened or what I would have "bought" if I didn't read about the scam in here. The web site sure was official looking, so beware of ANY e-mails from PayPal or eBay. Contact eBay directly through their auction site just to be sure. It was only an hour before they got back to me. It's better to be safe than broke. Thanks for reading this. Ron.
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PayPal scam...please read!!
- Thread starter RonNH
- Start date
Attention PayPal Online Client:
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
Please login into your PayPal Online account and complete verification process
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
Please login into your PayPal Online account and complete verification process
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.
silvernail
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Yeah, they drop in here at least that often. Some of them are pretty slick and plausible. Also get fishers trying to trick you out of a password, credit card or bank account number, PINs, etc. The world is full of schmucks that ought to be donated to Al Qaeda for beheading.
Ron,Thanks for the information.
Folks these e-mail are everywhere. I get one almost everyday ( seriously ). The bogus Pay Pal e-mails have slowed , but recently it has been bogus Ebay e-mail wanting sensitive information. I have reported at least 25 to ebay and Pay Pal , but they still keep coming . It is a never ending game hackers play , just get use to it , Ebay or Pay Pal cant stop them all. Best advice is to forward them to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com , then block the sender and delete it.
HH , David
HH , David
Ace
Member
On the scam email it says "Dear Paypal user" or similar, paypal would contact you by your username or Real Name. eBay applies to this rule too. If in any doubt close your email, open a new window from your internet browser, log DIRECTLY to paypal or eBay and log in, if there's anything they'd like you to know it would appear on your account.
Be REAL careful, scams are known on eBay, Paypal, Bank of America, etc. Just remember that any company will NOT ask you for your username and password, not your credit card number, PIN number or more obviously your USERNAME. NEVER by any means click a link on an email and log-in, that's how they get your account names, credit card numbers, etc.
Notice in this email I received from a "payment" made to my paypal account:
Notice the address is different from the real sender's address. If your email has the ability to view COMPLETE address paths like I have enabled here in hotmail then ENABLE it, its a good feature to put the junk where it belongs to.
Be REAL careful, scams are known on eBay, Paypal, Bank of America, etc. Just remember that any company will NOT ask you for your username and password, not your credit card number, PIN number or more obviously your USERNAME. NEVER by any means click a link on an email and log-in, that's how they get your account names, credit card numbers, etc.
Notice in this email I received from a "payment" made to my paypal account:
Notice the address is different from the real sender's address. If your email has the ability to view COMPLETE address paths like I have enabled here in hotmail then ENABLE it, its a good feature to put the junk where it belongs to.