Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Gerry in Maryland

>Don�t feel bad Mike. Last night on CNN they had a phisher on the phone that said they send out about ten million of those email scams a day and they may get as many as 2 million responses a week! Of course they situate themselves in countries that won�t prosecute Internet fraud artists.

Gerry

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Sam Dean

>I recieved the same message as well. I was stupid enough to click on the link though without thinking. Luckily, my anti-everything software wouldn't allow the page to open!

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

darrell

>Hover your pointer (cursor) over the link in the email and at the bottom of your screen it will show the real URL. If it doesn't say www.paypal.com it's a fake, but even if it does your're better off to go directly to paypal through your browser rather than the link in the email.

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Mike Schwing from Md.

>That is what I did Darrell. Examine the URL on the hover. I'm just pointing out how extremely authentic this one is. I see these types of things all of the time - they almost never get me to fall for it, but this one almost did.

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

David

>Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've gotten a paypal scam message and/or ebay scam message just about every single day for the past several months. I've determined that if paypal actually needs to contact me (other than a receipt for a transaction), they'll interrupt me for information during my next transaction. Same goes for Ebay.

Don't particularly like these scammers/hackers.

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Ron in Drums PA

>Don't feel bad, it's a old scam.

Now if you get a email from my friend Neubma Nemxa in Nigeria that is something different.

He's sending me a check for $630,000,000 and I get to keep 20%. It's a sad story how his country has exiled him. But I'm helping him transfer the money out of his country so he can help the orphans that are here from his land.

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Tom Stover

>Ron, I got that one yesterday. The name was different but the scam was the same. I almost wanted to help the guy out........NOT.

Some of those have trojans attached.

Carole in VA

>At least that was the warning one of our local ISPs sent out. Don't now if the trojan is actually attached or downloads when you go to the site.

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Jim Eddy

>You are right, Mike. Some of the more recent phishing emails are very well done, and it's hard to tell they are fake except that the context doesn't feel right. Though some are comical, in that they have sweated all the details to make the email look authentic, then have some text written in poor 6th grade grammar that you know didn't come from paypal, or Citibank.

I get them all the time supposedly from all sorts of banks from all over the country. I decided to follow one, to see what would happen. I clicked on the link, went to a very professional looking site that wanted to know my SS#, card numbers, etc. I made them up, clicked on the send button, they thanked me, and then sent me to the real bank's site. I'm sure a lot of people get fooled as they get more sophisticated and "professional" in their attempts.

jail time

Keith Tompkins

>It's about time someone truly policed the net; convictions would mean automatic time in prison. Some people may think twice.

Re: Beware of "service@paypal.com"

Pascal Oudet

>Mike,

one small detail: when real Paypal writes to you, the message begins with "Dear Mike Schwing", not "dear Paypal user".

this is one way (don't know if it will last long) to detect scam.

(I learnt this from a real "beware of scam" mail from Paypal)

Pascal