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Topic: Scam. Watch out! |
John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 4:22 am |
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As if anyone here would fall for this one! Comes under paypal heading.
This donation is meant for all children in Romania, a country which recently was invadata floods and the sliding surface. My children waiting at your miles they live in poverty because the waters leau got houses and property of their families. Thank you for your donations they will appreciate it and will thanking!
For Euro :
For Dollars : |
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 5:05 am
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Give to save the sliding children fund.
We can't let them glisten as much when sweating,
it is distracting.
They are suffering from Inangodadavida syndrome.
High stool, delayed borgarigmus and shortness of pants.
And you should see them pant in the excruciating heat
when lectured on the floor. We must extra air conditioning
buy for the office of the factories these children work in.
Give generously the children, we want more,
should not be exposed to damp manager's armpits
when they come out to hector them.
Thank you for donation of bricks for children to
make bridge for cars and not have to carry as far
the cars over river. Small children at big river
water eat many, give them bricks you can please.
Must help, not tall, sliding children, send euros
we like you, like we like children,
working hard to make life, for us we like.
Give more yesterday We think you.
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 5:12 am
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So,,, David,,,You're the one who sent me that heart-rending plea? I shoulda known! |
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Bob Bowden
From:
Vancouver, BC, Canada * R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 5:38 am
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Where can we send our bricks? Will they accept them postage due?  |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 7:54 am
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Writing stuff like this,
is why I make the big bricks! 
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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John Kingsley
From:
Los Angeles, CA
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 9:04 am
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Here's a tip for spotting spam:
If emails from Ebay or PayPal address you by your name, chances are they're legit. Spammers are very good at recreating websites and emails, so it can be tough to tell. Also, when you click on the link in the email, if it doesn't start with "ebay.com/" or "paypal.com/" it's probably fake. You can also forward any email you get to spam@email.com or spam@paypal.com and they'll confirm it for you, even if it is real.
Also, remember to use common sense. If someone sends you an ebay message saying they haven't recieved the item, and you haven't sold anything, it's probably fake. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 9:20 am
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If the're asking for personal information,
out of the blue,
to restart your temporarily closed account...
that's a data troller no matter HOW clearly
it resembles the real thing.
No real entity like Ebay or Paypal would ask
for your data in the clear like that.
And if in the instance some one HAS hacked your account,
it's CLOSED for good,
and they tell you to open an new one,
And WON'T provide a link,
you go to the homepage on your own.
new name new password etc.
Again ONLY in the secure
confines of the real entities web site.
No secure site 'padlock' you ain't CLOSE
to the real site.
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many!
Last edited by David L. Donald on 4 Aug 2008 6:42 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Martin Weenick
From:
Lecanto, FL, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 11:23 am
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At least they spelled "appreciate" right. Wonder how they did that ????? Martin.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 4 Aug 2008 12:18 pm
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The next time I get an E-mail from somebody telling me they have a gazllion dollars in a foreign bank and will give me half if I let them deposit it my account, I will tell them to give it to to the starving children of Romania instead.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2008 5:31 am
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And here's today's:
Note: This is a service message regarding the Chase Online Form.
Dear customer:
As part of the new security measures, all Chase bank customers are required to complete Chase Online Form. Please complete the form as soon as possible.
To access the form please click on the following link:
http://chaseonline.chase.com/Secure/webform/OSL.aspx?LOB= 5616463711595115410777492698745714997754715306&refer=40362503680
Thank you for being a valued customer.
Sincerely,
Online Banking Team
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Ronnie Boettcher
From:
Brunswick Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2008 5:56 am
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I had one a few days ago. It said pay pal needs to confirm my password. I wrote back, "If you are PayPal, you have my password. Go find another sucker.
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 5 Aug 2008 6:07 am
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The folks at Pay Pal are trying to find these criminals and put them away. You should have forwarded the letter to them to help them track down the senders.
The address to send these things to is spoof@paypal.com
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Dave Potter
From:
Texas
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Posted 6 Aug 2008 7:47 am
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| Ronnie Boettcher wrote: |
| I had one a few days ago. It said pay pal needs to confirm my password. I wrote back, "If you are PayPal, you have my password. Go find another sucker. |
And, by doing so, you accomplished one of two things, neither of which is productive (for you).
If the originating email address was valid, (not likely), you confirmed to some spammer/data miner that your email address is an active one, and therefore one to be retained for further exploitation.
The more likely scenario is that the sending email address was bogus, and your reply disappeared in cyberspace, never to be seen by a humanoid.
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 6 Aug 2008 9:14 am
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Dear Valued Customer,
Our Online Banking Security Team is carrying out a fraud prevention exercise on all accounts,
to reduce and prevent Fraud on our online E-gold system
All Verified Accounts will recieve a Special Anti-Fraud Protection, Which will reduce all risks of Online Fraud.
Please click on Sign in to Your Online Banking to continue to the verification process.
(Remember Failure to verify your account details will lead to account suspension for security Reasons)
Thank you.
Bank of America Security Department
© 2008 All Rights Reserved.
Almost looks legit but theSign in to Your Online Bankinggoes here;
DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK
>>>http://tcpmediagroup.com/cache/image/rtw/signin.html<<<
it is storing all the info for some CC bank card scammers,
Then they come back to you with a slightly different set of questions to finish the data they need to rape your accounts.
Scum sucking bottom feeders all!
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2008 9:38 am
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The cleverest one I've encountered, and fell for was as follows:
I bought a Robert Cray Strat body on ebay. Dirt cheap btw.
Went to Paypal to pay for it.
The first page that came up was the legit Paypal page. I payed for the body.
Another Paypal page came up immediately sayin' there was a problem.
I verified my account with the asked for info.
Another legit Paypal page came up verifying my having paid.
My bank called me a few days later to inform me that my account # had been stolen. New account time. Lost nothing, but,,,,,,,
The scammers had cleverly inserted their legit-lookin' page in between two real Paypal pages! I let Paypal have it! I hope they have eliminated the security breech that allowed this scam. But now I only use PO money orders. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 6 Aug 2008 10:37 am
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| John Billings wrote: |
The scammers had cleverly inserted their legit-lookin' page in between two real Paypal pages! I let Paypal have it! I hope they have eliminated the security breech that allowed this scam. But now I only use PO money orders. |
Quite clever, and possibly an inside job to insert that.
Or they very intelligently hacked a page server...
Bet PP doesn't want THAT getting out as common knowledge.
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2008 11:07 am
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"Bet PP doesn't want THAT getting out as common knowledge."
Got that right! They were pretty freaked when I started yelling at them. Can you imagine how many people might have fallen for that in just a few hours? |
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Matthew Walton
From:
Fort Worth, Texas
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Posted 16 Aug 2008 8:19 am
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Once I got a *fake* paypal email saying I had won an ebay item (that I hadn't bought, of cource) I think it was eather a ring or a set of earrings oh well, dosn't really matter does it?
but anyway, it said it was from service@paypal.com (or something like that) where it usually says the sender's name (for me it would say "Matthew Walton"), but when you double-clicked on it, to see the actuall address, it was service@PAYpal.com.
very sneaky.
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If something I wrote can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, I meant the other one.
1981 MSA "The Universal" Bb6 S-12 9/5 | 2024 Excel Robostar Bb6 S-12 8/5 | 2009 MSA SuperSlide C6 S-12 | Peavey Nashville 112 |
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Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2008 9:54 am
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| Matthew Walton wrote: |
Once I got a *fake* paypal email ... it said it was from service@paypal.com, but when you double-clicked on it, to see the actual address, it was service@PAYpal.com.
very sneaky. |
It doesn't matter what it says in the From: field. All senders in phishing and spam messages are forged. What does matter is in the headers, in the "Received from" lines. All email sent from Paypal will have one of the paypal.com servers listed in the headers. Ditto for eBay, banks, credit unions, etc. All major companies have their own mail servers and they are always displayed in the headers. The problem for the average Joe is that email headers are normally hidden. You must check certain options in web mail applications to see the headers, or click certain key combinations in a standalone email client, like Outlook Express, or Windows Live Mail (Alt + Enter).
So, whether the scam email claimed to come from paypal, or PAYpal, it matters not. All domain names are converted into lower case by your browser and the DNS server system. Website folders and files may contain mixed letter cases, but not the FQDN.
Example:
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