Watch out for your Paypal!
By HawaiiGopher
@HawaiiGopher (1009)
Belgium
February 10, 2007 6:19am CST
I really want to warn all of you to watch out for your Paypal accounts. A group of people have now started to send out e-mails that look exactly like your average Paypal e-mails but they're not. The senders use special sites or programs allowing them to use fake e-mails. So the email address on the top could appear to be, 'noreply@paypal.com' or something of the sort. They copy and paste a message that the actual Paypal staff would use but use javascript to make it so that when you hit a link it leads to their site. Their site looks exactly like Paypal but it's not. If you look on top and you see that you're not at paypal.com, immediately exit the site. Just warning you all because I've had an e-mail sent in to me today which I almost fell for. The Firefox system caught it and warned me it could be a fake site. It was a fake site.. :\
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10 responses
@snapygapi0 (16)
• Rwanda
10 Feb 07
Thanks for the warning. I am new to paypal, and i will make better attention to fake emails.
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@uath13 (8192)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Its called phishing and its been around a while. Often they send something saying you need to confirm your account so you'll put your password and account # into their forms. Then they clean you out. There's all kinds of phishing going around right now. Everything from making you the beneficiary of some millionares estate to winning an online lottery , all you have to do to claim the cash is give them your account. Its rediculeus.
Be very causcious and scrutenize every email you get.
@HawaiiGopher (1009)
• Belgium
10 Feb 07
Yes, I know it has been around for a while considering I got a similar e-mail a year back. I just felt it was necessary to warn those who didn't already know abou it. :)
@n3v3rl0v3 (153)
• United Arab Emirates
10 Feb 07
Yeah this type of fake emailing are getting so common now-a-days and I am quite careful about the links on my mails. One the other hand I have paypal account but I haven't verified that account uptil now. That's why am safe from these phishings. Anyway, thanks for the information.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
12 Mar 07
Thank you for the warning, it seems that these tricksters will result to dirty measures to scam innocent unsuspecting people. Usually the email will NOT contain your name, I have had a couple in the past and each time I forward them on to Paypal HQ as fraud.
@johnanthons (223)
• New Zealand
27 Mar 07
hey thanks for the heads up hawaiigopher. i dont know what id do if my hard earned money was taken away..lol only a few bucks =/
anywayz thnx for advice
@ThunderCrash (334)
• Germany
11 Feb 07
thanks for the warning, just came in the right moment because I'll get started in getting emails from paypal because of payments.
@dellion (6698)
• Malaysia
11 Feb 07
Its true that lots of fake mails who claims themselves as paypal staffs that ask for paypal account holder verifications on account info. The few thin s we need to know in order to protect our paypal account were: 1, Always verify the sender address to make sure they were from"www.paypal.com" and no any exception other than the only official site. 2, Never give out your paypal account password for whatever reasons it might be as paypal was state very clear that not even their own company or any staffs will ask for account password for whatever reasons. 3, Copy or provides the fake mail link when make your report to paypal which you can find a sections for you report any suspicious mails.
@chhaganbhujbad (263)
• United States
16 Feb 07
wow!!! thanks for letting me know...
its a really good piece of information and i really appreciate you putting it up on the Mylot discussion board... I think it was nice of you to do that... thanks a lot again
@Takuyar (114)
• Saudi Arabia
27 Feb 07
I've got emails like that before with fake locations and origins, but not for paypal. Thanks for a heads up anyway and I just hope enough people report these kind of emails to paypal so they shut down the senders.
