Terry664
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Post by Terry664 on Mar 3, 2006 18:10:00 GMT -5
Everyone may know about this already, but it bothered me so I wanted everyone to know. In the last month or so I have recieved 2 e-mails from Pay Pal saying there were some discrepancies to my account, so I clicked on site in e-mail, went to very proper looking Pay Pal site, where I was asked for my credit card #. I balked at this because I very seldom use a credit card at Pay Pal I use my bank. So I wrote Pay Pal and never heard back. This was the first one. Two days ago I got the second one it stated, we have recieved message that you want to add e-mail laptopseller@yahoo.com to your account, please go to this url and verify information. I clicked on site went to site where they asked for verification, again my credit card #. This time I called Pay Pal, described what had happened, she said she showed no request for a new e-mail for me and the e-mail was probably phoney, to send it to spoof@paypal.com. I did within 20 minutes they answered and said e-mail was phoney and someone was just trying to get my credit card #. If you get anything like this from Pay Pal, forward it to spoof@paypal.com and they will clear it up with you. Also check your account with pay pal right away and see what it says and look for any charges you should not have. The lady at Pay Pal I talked to said, never give account information in response to e-mail. They will contact you directly if there is a problem.
Terry
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Post by Cher on Mar 3, 2006 18:20:47 GMT -5
I get several of those each week, also from eBay and several banks (none of which I belong too). There's another post about an ebay email, here not too far down the page. They are phishing, looking for your info so they can break into your account and charge big bucks to it.
1. Paypal and Ebay do not email their customers asking for account information.
2. If you look at the link you clicked on, it will have something besides ebay.com, signin.ebay.com or paypal.com ... that will tell you that you are not on the real site.
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Post by snowdog on Mar 3, 2006 18:36:14 GMT -5
another thing with ebay ---if it is from ebay then you will have an exact same message in "your ebay" under messages
if I get a regular email and it says it is from them --I just delete it --without opening it ---then go to ebay/ paypal log in and see if there is the same message and answer it there --that way I feel sure that they sent it
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thehawke
freely admits to licking rocks
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Member since January 2006
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Post by thehawke on Mar 3, 2006 19:02:31 GMT -5
another thing. always look and make sure the paypal site has HTTPS in it. Not just http.
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Post by BAZ on Mar 3, 2006 20:17:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I get them all of the time too and I report them all. Actually I am so paranoid now I've sent a few to the spoof email addresses and they have come back saying that this is legitimate ebay/paypal correspondence.
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thehawke
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Member since January 2006
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Post by thehawke on Mar 3, 2006 20:34:37 GMT -5
I think also paypal and/or ebay will use your full name.
For instance,
Dear hawkestar is most likely a spoof
Dear Ryan B. (my name spelled out of course) is most likely from them.
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