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Topic: Paypal problem????? |
Charles Curtis
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:20 am |
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| I just got a message from, supposedly, Paypal alledging that someone from such and such address is trying to access my Paypal acct and requesting information from me or my acct will be closed; has anyone else gotten this or am I just lucky?? |
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Drew Howard
From:
48854
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:22 am
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Charles,
DON'T click on it, it's a scam. Run your cursor over the link and see what URL comes up at the bottom of your screen. Chances are it isn't paypal.com, it's a bastardization of the domain name.
Drew
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:33 am
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i did also........and i dont have a pay-pal acount!!!!
itlooks to me to have scam wrote
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:35 am
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Charles, DON'T click on any links in the email, just forward it to spoof@paypal.com and forget you ever received it.
Steinar
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[This message was edited by Steinar Gregertsen on 23 January 2006 at 07:35 AM.] |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:39 am
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| Thanks guys, I just deleted the thing. If Paypal was going to close my acct I would just use another form of payment, no big deal. It's a shame that this sort of stuff goes on. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:39 am
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IF PAYPAL does not address you by NAME..and ask you to go to the website and LOG IN..
it is FRAUD !!!!
Every EMAIL you get from them that is legit will start with
dear..( insert name here )
pretty simple
they are not going to cancel your account..but someone is willing to clean it out if you give them the chance...
I get these EMAILS everyday, the problem is they send them to an email account that is not even registered with PAYPAL...
don't fret over this stuff..just delete them...[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 23 January 2006 at 07:42 AM.] [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 23 January 2006 at 09:02 AM.] |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:41 am
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| Sorry Steinar, I got your message too late, maybe someone else will forward theirs and Paypal can do something. |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 8:08 am
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Charles, I'm sure PayPal gets several hundreds of them every day, if not thousands, so it's no problem. I don't know if there's so much they can do about it anyway, but they recommend forwarding these phishing mails to the "spoof" address, so I usually do that.
Steinar
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 8:39 am
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got that this morning as well...they must send out batches of em all at once.
What is mind boggling to me is why the authorities cannot simply trace the IP addresses of these scmammers and round em up for some blue collar prison time???? |
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Charley Adair
From:
Maxwell, Texas, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 8:42 am
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| I got the same thing this morning. I called paypal and they said the same thing about forward it to spoof@paypal and delete it. So I did just that. [This message was edited by Charley Adair on 23 January 2006 at 08:45 AM.] |
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 9:07 am
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I get them daily from Phishers of Ebay and Paypal. I forward them all to spoof, but they keep coming.
I doubt anything other than a message from Ebay or Paypal that anything is done about them.
don |
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Smiley Roberts
From:
Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 9:22 am
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I got one too,& the weird is...I don't even have a paypal acct.!! I dumped it.
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 11:07 am
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Don't just delete them.
The only way they can work to stop the stuff is to know about it. Forward them all to either spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com (either one - it's the same company).
They have an entire department that works with law enforcement tracking the phishers down.
Just deleting is easy, but it isn't real helpful. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 11:19 am
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| It was a busy day for the phishermen; several of us got this one. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 12:52 pm
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Hey Smiley, you should have followed the link to your FAKE account and emptied it !
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 1:32 pm
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Not a Steel Players topic. We discuss these things a lot in the Computers section of the Forum. Moved.
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