Be on the alert for a fraudulent email that says to login,give your password and credit card info.It looks just like the real paypal site,it looks like to me they downloaded the real paypal site.The giveaway is they address you as "Dear paypal member"real emails from paypal always address with your name.Know this is off topic,but,though they did not get any money,I did have to get a new credit card,I was lucky
Mike
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I GOT THE SAME EMAIL ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO. SO I CALLED PAYPAL THEY SAID IT WAS A SCAM I AM JUST WONDERING WAY THEY HAVEN'Y DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT IT.
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Fishcrazy the real give away was them asking for your password and creditcard number. I hope you changed your password also. Would hate to see them log into paypal as you. Good luck and thanks for posting.
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They are all scams like that. Most companies say they will never ask for your private information. I alwasy like to enter really nasty fake id's and passwords, and of course tell them if I catch them I will remove various parts of their anatomy. All in fun.
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I got the one from paypal, and I also got one for America First Credit Union. They're everywhere.
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This was the first time I have been caught by one of these scams,due to some circumstances I believed this one,there address was the exact same as paypal,and I had not used it in a while.They knew this,how?I will be canceling this account.I don't believe PayPal has good security.
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Between work and home I get at least two or three of these requests every week from several banks, PayPal, eBay and others. This past week I received four or five chances to become rich, just by helping some foreigner get mega bucks out of his country.
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Kent, the fraud scheme you are talking about is called the Nigerian scam. It started in Nigeria and has since moved to Canada, Mexico, and several other countries. The FBI and other federal agencies know about this but because of trade laws and lack of extradition laws with Nigeria there is nothing that can be done against the people scamming us. It started out as letters in the mail and is not an e-mail and internet wide scam. They are now sending people info to try to get them to join their company and private mini-corporations and every time you forward them their illegal money you get to keep your commission.
We deal with these kinds of things day in and day out at work. All I can say is that no matter what don't give out your information on the internet when somebody comes to you asking for it.
Too many dirt bags, not enough bullets.
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Yep, I am very familiar with the Nigerian scams (I have even attended several workshops on them and similar scams). On a few occasions I have played along with them for awhile. I have created a ficticious me and given them a line or two about being extremely wealthy, greedy and gullible. I have never given out any personal information. After exchanging a few emails and getting their hopes up that they have found another sucker I send them an email telling them what I really think of them.
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OK, here is the irony. This type of scam is called "Phishing". As many of you said, this is all over. The nigerians started the one with the bank account, and now several sites try to look like a real site but they aren't. Any time they ask you to confirm a password, credit card number, or acct number, you know it ain't right. I actually work in the fraud area at my work. Here are a couple new ones that are popping up.
1- ATMs: they place a camera in the ATM or have someone with a good looking glass from far away as you type in your pin. Or they will replace the reader with a skimmer that copies all your data. The funniest one I saw was a sign that said swipe your card to clean the magstripe. Many people did, and all it was doing was recording their data to put on a counterfeit card.
2- This is the scary one. There are now new programs out there that get downloaded to your computer that record every keystroke you make. So if you do any financial transactions, they have it all. Its growing fast.
Anyway, sorry to take this off topic, but I had to chuckle about the phishing.
tuber
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I to have received these phony e-mails from paypal and e-bay. I forwarded them both to [url "mailto
poof@paypal"]spoof@paypal[/url] or [url "mailto
poof@ebay"]spoof@ebay[/url]. I later received confirmation from both paypal and ebay that these emails were not thiers. When in doubt dont give out personal info.
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