Paypal Fraud! Read If You Have Paypal!!

[JoshHd6 10+ year member]

EVERYONE that has paypal. If you get a e-mail that says something like this -

January 2007

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.

It has the logos and everything in the e-mail. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK AND SINE IN!!

It is a spoof site!

This is the link to the bad site. DO NOT LOG INTO IT.

http://219.84.101.126/login/index.htm

You can see that it starts with a ip address, it IS NOT paypal.

I already notified them of this, but i didnt catch onto it untill it asked me to re-enter my credit card #.

Click to read more...

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

your an idiot if you fall for something like that //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[docutech 10+ year member]

I got one of them a few days ago. Right clicked the link and the address wasnt paypal. If I recall correctly it was a javascript of some sort.

Careful where you be clickin!

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

umm duh?

I get emails like this from paypal and ebay all the time. It's easy to spot a fake. Usually they have a link and ask you to confirm or update something...or I get a fake receipt and theres a link that says "dispute transaction" which isn't usually there on receipts...

 

[2loud4u 10+ year member]

Got one of those a few months ago.

Stupid scammers.

 

[KaeZoo 10+ year member]

Forward those e-mails to spoof@paypal.com.