PayPal Scam Please Mylot Beware This Looks Real
By sidoney
@sidoney (1033)
Jamaica
June 26, 2007 5:28am CST
A few weeks ago I read about scammers pretending to be PayPal to get our info on a site that looks like PayPal kinda like what they did with a couple of the USA banks a while back this is what it looks like according to y research so please beware and don't click on link in your email but go to the site directly.according to my observation there are
1.No PayPal logo in this email
2.PayPal does not send its mail from new-service@yahoo.com it sends it from service@intl.paypal.com
3.PayPal is not connected to the email they send it to my PayPal email is spam free
PayPal Security Center new-service@yahoo.com
Dear valued PayPal member,
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. Please update your records on or before June 22, 2007.
Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session 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.
Copyright 1999-2007 PayPal. All rights reserved
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22 responses
@speedy1279 (2665)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I don't ever remember getting fake emails like this from paypal. But thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. I will be on the lookout for anything suspicious.
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@disvachic (10117)
• United States
26 Jun 07
yes plz be aware because i get them all the time.They are so phony.
@disvachic (10117)
• United States
26 Jun 07
Yes i get those fake letters in one of my email accounts all the time.One was trying to tell me about something i did not even order.Saying they needed me to confirm something so i get a refund.They must really thought i was SLOW or something.Another thing paypal always address you by your name and not with dear valued paypal member.I hate the fact people try to scam and steal its ridiculous.They will never have good luck doing those things.
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@student7 (1002)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I have had a few of those scams come across my inbox and I just forward them to the real Paypal and they deal with them. So if you do see them forward them to Paypal and Paypal will deal with them. I think that people who do that should harness their energy into a legit business where they can make moeny instead of stealing other people's money.
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@magikrose (5429)
• United States
26 Jun 07
What I think is really sad is that these people sending out these emails dont think they are doing anything wrong and think that they are not going to get in trouble.
I have receieved emails like this before and all I do is since I have robo form I use that to log in. That way I know it is a secured log in. Ten I check my account for any messages and if there arnt any that I know I am fine.
@vpsmalhotra (194)
• India
26 Jun 07
Must thank you in tons loads for highlighting the scammers cue ! You deserve all the kudos for alerting us and I feel lucky to be a member of the mylot where all such matters are brought to light and one is advised to be careful!
I live in India and hav acount woth pay pal and have paying and selling transaction of late I am unable o access my accoount and have written to pay pal but there have not been any respose from them I tried to make payment through credit card but it was not accepted by pay pal .Pay pal has grown too big but there appear to be very poor CRM with the result that customer suffers poor customer relation ship is the bane of the internet either the companies donot care for the customers once the payment has been recieved or they donot want to establish resources to this end which is the redressal forum agency or regulator who could be approached for such matters A case of money laundering etc has been ensued in case of a money processorin usa inder hte fedrallaws can something not be done in the similiar manner fornew-service@yahoo.com who in afradulant manner has tried to dupe theinternet users of pay pal Does it not behove on the Paypal to take upthe matter themselves and inform all their members about it ? I think they can do it are there any other legal rmedies available against such global scamsters ?
I would be thankful if I am enlightened about it whole of he world follows US in such matters of laws is there any reprieve for the commom man against such scammers ? kindly guide
vpsmalhotra
@apakabar2007 (1693)
• Netherlands
27 Jun 07
Yep, I've got such emails pretend to be paypal many times. But most of the time I forward them to paypal. To make sure, if that's paypal or not normally I'll go directly on paypal website not by email notifications. And you can see if the line is secure or not by at the webhost which begin with "https:......."
Never ever give your personal information such confirmation code of your credit card/bank info unless you are 100% that the website is really from paypal itself with secure line. Also never ever give any of your PIN code to anyone online except for your own bank.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
26 Jun 07
Good Morning,
I have had these folks do the same thing to me, so I had to call the Pay Pal folks because I had some inconsistencies; so there it is. So, this is what you can do. You will know if PayPal emailed you when they send you an email detailed Dear(Your Name), if that isn't there like Dear PayPal Member, or you get an email with more than ONE email address on there, then you know that it's not legit. Also, the folks at PayPal said that whenever you get these emails, send it to spoof@paypal.com and they will shut them down. That's what I've been advised. hope this helps.
@momoftwingirls (859)
• United States
27 Jun 07
Thank you for this information. I have not seen these fake letters..yet. But if I do, I too will forward it to PayPal.
@minijumbuk (514)
• Australia
27 Jun 07
This is exactly like the mail in my inbox, however, i use gmail and they notified me that this email "may be suspicious and may not be from who it claims to be" on the top of the screen so i knew it was a scam
the website link actually said it was from "service@paypal.com" but when i logged on paypal, i didn't find it anywhere they i had to update my info in. So i would just ignore it and mark it as a spam. If you are really concerned, i think it should be reported to paypal that there is some scam out there, putting a bad name on the company, im sure they will do something about it =D
@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
26 Jun 07
I hate those things, there are so many scams out there! It's a good thing that people let each other know so they can't make too many victims (hopefully).
I've had several spoof/scam mails pretending to be ebay and paypal, I think they are 2 of the most attacked online services nowadays.
Thank you so much for letting us know! I can only advice everyone to read the guidelines on these sites on how to recognize a spoof mail, it does help you out even though sometimes it's still hard to see whether it's true or not.
When I'm not sure, I contact the service directly and ask whether or not they sent the e-mail. Take care!
@amey_dev143 (483)
• India
26 Jun 07
Thanks for this information.I completely agree with some of the statements mentioned above.I mean I really trust what you wrote,because I was a victim of this.I hope my Paypal is safe now.
@JCIJACKY24 (75)
• China
27 Jun 07
IN the netword this phenmomena is at large .what we should do is ingore them with care .
