WARNING - Paypal Scam - WARNING - Paypal Scam

shutter · 06-11-2007

Heads up, ( and down ). everyone.... this one " looks real "...

( Yes I spotted the "Dear Customer" ... but ... .... )

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Notice of changes to the PayPal user agreement.

Dear Customer,

Log in to your PayPal account as soon as possible

We have recently encountered a problem in your account.
Click the Activation link and Follow the instructions.

Get more out of your account

Now is the time to make your PayPal account even more useful:

Account Overview

Get up-to-date information about your payments.
Get notifications of important information, like changes to PayPal policies.
Add or withdraw money from your PayPal account.

Yours sincerely,
PayPal

Please do not reply to this email because we are not monitoring this inbox. To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click "Contact Us" at the bottom of any page.

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Moderator's note by Adie (Dvorak) All caps tltle removed as per Forum rules and malicious link removed.

Moderator's note by Dick (Strat) Other potentially malicious links removed.

HairyMcbiker · 16-02-2009

Do you read all your spam messages? Or wasn't it in the spam folder?

rongtw · 01-12-2010

I got rid of pay pal last year when they tried to take money from my bank , that wasn't oweing

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AlaricAdair · 21-03-2011

Do you need to kill off the URL embedded to the Scam site?

Now Zen, but a +Net residue.

w23 · 08-01-2008

Please follow the instructions here and get this site closed (it's currently live): https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/security/report-problem

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Oldjim · 15-06-2007

Kaspersky doesn't like it

w23 · 08-01-2008

Avast hasn't picked it up yet (I've reported it).

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gleneagles · 02-08-2007

@shutter

Thanks for flagging that up, I guess a number of us use paypal

billnotben · 23-09-2010

The paypal scam I don't like is one that actually belongs to them.

The one where you are charged a higher rate if the buyer is registered abroad.

I sell a fair few items on ebay to "UK only" but I still get this coming up more than I like.

I guess it's just another side effect of mass immigration.

7up · 01-08-2007

shutter wrote:

Notice of changes to the PayPal user agreement.

Dear Customer,

Log in to your PayPal account as soon as possible

We have recently encountered a problem in your account.

Click the Activation link and Follow the instructions.

Get more out of your account

Now is the time to make your PayPal account even more useful:

Account Overview

Get up-to-date information about your payments.

Get notifications of important information, like changes to PayPal policies.

Add or withdraw money from your PayPal account.

Yours sincerely,
PayPal

Help Center | Security Center

Please do not reply to this email because we are not monitoring this inbox. To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click "Contact Us" at the bottom of any page.

Copyright [+] 1999-2016 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved.

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Moderator's note by Adie (Dvorak) All caps tltle removed as per Forum rules and malicious link removed.

Moderator's note by Dick (Strat): More malicious links edited.

Dear customer, 'in' instead of 'with'... then the promotional "Get more out of..."

Stinks of a scam straight away.

I need a new signature... i'm bored of the old one!

shutter · 06-11-2007

HairyMcbiker wrote:
Do you read all your spam messages? Or wasn't it in the spam folder?

I get almost no spam messages ! ! !... and yes it was "live" on screen as a "standard" or "normal" email...to my proper email address...

HairyMcbiker · 16-02-2009

I just checked my spam folder.

3 from "paypal"

One threatening me with the police & paypal

I can't understand, 3 days ago you told me to pay by Paypal to proceed with shipping next day. Payment has been sent, gave you the proof of payment and I still have no item, this is the last day I am waiting, if I won't get it, I'll report you to Police and Paypal. .

The "item" shows an ebay.com address and the ACTUAL url is to ferreteriacaball

The 2 Learn more links point to the same url.

Nice trick is

Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay.

BUT NO name is shown!

The other 2 are saying my paypal account will be disabled yeah right!

Love the notes at the end:

Note :

If The Link Don't Work On Gmail and Outlook Please CLick On ("Non-Spam" & "The Show
Images Noted Below" [Afficher les images ci-dessous]) due to our new security update.

idonno · 22-10-2015

It's one reason I don't receive or send emails in anything other than plain text. HTML emails might be glossy looking at times but plain text emails show up scam links very easily. e.g. instead of the Paypal logo you get the link in plain text that it points too. in your case, paypal.com/y......... Same with the help etc links. They stand out a mile as not being legimate. I've had some that are even worse coming from a .br domain. All get deleted before they even get to my inbox.