Off topic: New scam? Thread poster: Ivana de Sousa Santos
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Hello everybody:
I've just received an e-mail from "PayPal", from which I'm not a member, with the following content:
"Dear valued PayPal® member:
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal account we have issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instan... See more Hello everybody:
I've just received an e-mail from "PayPal", from which I'm not a member, with the following content:
"Dear valued PayPal® member:
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal account we have issued this warning message.
It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Once you have updated your account records your paypal account
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr_cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside"
It can only be a fake e-mail, since I'm not a member, so be careful.
Ivana ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Definitely a scam | Jun 18, 2005 |
I got the same sort of message about 6 months ago from ebay (yes, I admit that I love ebay!). I never did anything... and my account was never "suspended"! It's a ploy to divulge your bank/credit card details, so be wary!
Catherine
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Canada
Local time: 11:01
English to French
| moya
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:01
French to English
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| It is indeed a scam, | Jun 18, 2005 |
Dear Ivana,
I had the same mail a few weeks ago, I do have a paypal account, but not with this email address, so, I sent the email through to the Paypal Scam department, and they confirmed that this is indeed a scam. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK.
moya
Ivana de Sousa Santos wrote: Hello everybody: I've just received an e-mail from "PayPal", from which I'm not a member, with the following content: "Dear valued PayPal® member: Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the paypal account we have issued this warning message. It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Once you have updated your account records your paypal account service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. To update your PayPal® records click on the following link: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr_cmd=_login-run Thank You. PayPal® UPDATE TEAM Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside" It can only be a fake e-mail, since I'm not a member, so be careful. Ivana
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Robert Tucker (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:01
German to English
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| Report to ISP | Jun 18, 2005 |
I get about one a day of these either purporting to be from eBay or from PayPal.
Looking in the full email header or the address to which you are supposed to respond you generally find the web address or the IP address of the Internet service provider or the ultimate holder of the address.
With an IP address use:
http://www.schwarzl.com/ipcheck.html
... See more I get about one a day of these either purporting to be from eBay or from PayPal.
Looking in the full email header or the address to which you are supposed to respond you generally find the web address or the IP address of the Internet service provider or the ultimate holder of the address.
With an IP address use:
http://www.schwarzl.com/ipcheck.html
to obtain the web address. From there you can usually find a useful contact email address.
Once reported, it is they who are likely to have their Internet connection suspended.
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| | | | Lindsay Sabadosa (X)
United States
Local time: 11:01
Italian to English
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| Visit the PayPal site | Jun 18, 2005 |
If you are using PayPal but suspect that an e-mail you receive from them is a scam, check out their website. I believe that they have information on there about how to identify an e-mail truly addressed from them. They are, in any case, aware of these phising attempts but there is probably little anyone can do.
| | | | | You find out it is a scam when you are asked to type in your PIN number | Jun 19, 2005 |
I got one of these a couple of months back, and believed it, so I started to fill in the online form until I got to the question asking me to type in my PIN number. Suddenly I realised that it was nothing official from PayPal, as no bank or similar organisation ever asks the customer for their PIN number, so I hastily went back through the form, carefully deleting everything that I had typed in.
Astrid
| | | | | I got a new different e-mail again | Jun 23, 2005 |
After having received an e-mail like the one I wrote about in this thread, I have just received a new one:
"We recently have determined that different computers have logged into your PayPal account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. One of our Customer Service employees has already tryed to telephonically reach you. As our employee did not manage to reach you, this email has been sent to your notice.
Therefore your account has been temporary suspend... See more After having received an e-mail like the one I wrote about in this thread, I have just received a new one:
"We recently have determined that different computers have logged into your PayPal account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. One of our Customer Service employees has already tryed to telephonically reach you. As our employee did not manage to reach you, this email has been sent to your notice.
Therefore your account has been temporary suspended. We need you to confirm your identity in order to regain full privileges of your account.
If this is not completed by June 25, 2005, we reserve the right to terminate all privileges of your account indefinitly, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.
To confirm your identity please follow the link below:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
PayPal - Customer Service
Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered."
Actually I couldn't see no IP address in this e-mail, so I can't report it. ▲ Collapse
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Robert Tucker (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:01
German to English
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| Full header? | Jun 23, 2005 |
Ivana de Sousa Santos wrote:
Actually I couldn't see no IP address in this e-mail, so I can't report it.
You've checked in the full header? -
Displaying Full Header (Sender) Information
Most SPAM has a forged "From" address. This means you will not be able to reply to it. Doing so will simply have it returned to your inbox as undeliverable. Viewing the full header information of a message shows the mail server relay path the mail has taken to reach your mailbox which helps in identifying e-mail problems or sources of SPAM.
Viewing Full Header Information for Individual Messages
1. In the Inbox Pane, click the message you want to view the headers for.
2. On the File menu, click Properties.
3. Click the Details tab.
4. Click OK after viewing the header information.
http://www.ksu.edu/InfoTech/e-mail/docs/outlook/olexpress/olexpress.html
On Thunderbird it's:
View>Headers>All
Ignore all IP addresses beginning with 10, 127, 172 or 192 (10.xxx.xxx.xxx, 127.xxx.xxx.xxx, 172.xxx.xxx.xxx, 192.xxx.xxx.xxx) - they're just local network addresses.
An email I got today from an ISP to whom I was trying to report a spammer:
Dear Sir or Madam,
In order to accurately track the origin of the email, we need the FULL HEADER and MESSAGE. If you need help please visit the following site http://www.haltabuse.org/help/headers/, this site will give you instructions on how to get headers from any email program.
Please keep in mind that we can only investigate Spam complaints that are no more than 3 days old.
Once you provide us with the full message and header we will then investigate this issue. Thanks in advance.
Regards
[Edited at 2005-07-03 15:27]
| | | | Vito Smolej
Germany
Local time: 17:01
Member (2004)
English to Slovenian
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SITE LOCALIZER | I in "paypal" - is it l or is it I? | Jun 26, 2005 |
I'm not joking - could be somebody has now paypaI.com and tries to harvest off (Including the safe communication via https). But then it's rather improbable that paypal would let this happen without making NIC move and kill the name.
In any case either a scam - or the paypal defense team is in overdrive mode.
| | | | | I think it's an I (ai) | Jun 26, 2005 |
If you notice in the body of the e-mail, the "l" and "i" are very different.
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