Paypal Ebay Inheritances and other free money
By lurch0075
@lurch0075 (85)
Canada
January 23, 2008 2:55am CST
Do you get emails telling you that you have won $10 million dollars or if you send you info to them they will send you a bank draft for $500,000, or have you goten emails saying someone has a question about your ebay item when you aren't even a member, or paypal? I am starting to track emails that have been sent to me and forwarding them to either spoof@ebay.ca or spoof@paypal.com or make it as a phisnhing scam on your email account button, DONT CLICK THE LINK IT IS 80% CHANCE A TROJAN/TRACKER/HACKER LINK/MAJOR VIRUS.. Let me know if you have ahd this happen I want to start a forum where other can be warned about this or you can post it here on this post and let others know.... GO TO consumerfraudreporting.org
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6 responses
@YamiKiba (937)
• United States
23 Jan 08
Thanks for the warning. Its a good thing my email account has strict spam settings on.
I've gotten quite a few of these already. . .especially in my second primary email account. Over 6,000 actually. I got tired of deleting my spam mails. . .lmao. I bet that email address has over 100k spam emails now. Too many to name actually. One example is some guy from some foreign place emailed me saying he'd give me some "inheritance money" if I met this person somewhere at some airport. .I also get emails saying I've won a lottery in London. . .I haven't even BEEN to London. xD
@shotgunner101 (315)
• United States
24 Jan 08
I've been noticing this too... It's pretty stupid like you'd be lucky enough to win that much money lol.It's sad some people do fall for it and lose their money/good credit because of hackers/robbers/theives :(
@j27366 (293)
• Philippines
24 Jan 08
i always get these scam emails daily. i just delete them and sometimes i report them as spam. but i don't feel anything is being done whenever i do report. so, i just delete them. just a few minutes ago, i got an email from the supposed new Senator in Africa saying i will get an ATM Swift Card with $10M as initial fund. i'm not stupid to believe this. who in Africa would give me an inheritance when i do not even know one single person there!
@arkansos (545)
• India
23 Jan 08
Yeah I recieve all sorts of stupid mail saying that he/she is some great heirloom who'd like to hide his money(generally in multiples of 100000$) in my bank account and that I could have half of it
I replied once or twice but it doesn't work really.
He just quits replying...
Really annoying things, I tell you
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
23 Jan 08
I have only had one phishing email it was an email saying there was a problem with my paypal account and to sign in on the link in the email to check it out.
Well I closed the email and went directly to paypals site there was no problem with my account so I sent the email to paypal and they said it was a phising email and they would disable it.
@drrt_801 (116)
• Philippines
23 Jan 08
I did get emails from Africa asking for money to go to the olympics..?? I also got emails from lottery telling me to send my information where to send the money and to include my name and some other details, I also have this email that I keep saying that they are kitchenware manufacturers from China and this one is the worst of them all. asking me to lend them money so that they can send my share of the profit... yeah right!
