Paypal scam

[Matt34]

Got 6 of them in the last 2 days. Just wanted to warn anyone that if receive an email from them that ask for you to change your password because of attempts to log on your account from a foreign IP then it's a scam. I've already forward them to paypal and there investigating it.



I was born at night, just not last night

 

[claudermilk]

It looks like PayPal isn't putting links of any sort in their emails any more, but directing you to manually type in the URL to get to them--this is because of all the phishing emails directed at PayPal customers (it seems they are the biggest target right now). I keep any eye on this site: http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/ I would be suspicious of ANY email requesting personal information, and/or having links the click through any more. Some of these thieves are getting quite sophisticated at hiding the nature of the scam (linking directly to the real graphics, obfuscating the URL to look like the real thing, etc.).

Since virii are losing their teeth this is the new 'net plague, along with spyware.

 

[Tomorrow]

The PayPal (and eBay) schemes have been around for a couple of years now. I don't even bother with sending them on to the "spoof" sites at eBay and PayPal, anymore. They either do nothing, or can do nothing about the phishers. Same thing with banks, credit cards, etc.

Word to the wise, NEVER, EVER send email that includes financial information/passwords/etc. to these 'unknown' people requesting it via email. It's 99.9% certain to be a fraudulent enterprise. As already advised, always type in the url you want to go to. Don't use automatic links for this kind of activity.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Got 6 of them in the last 2 days. Just wanted to warn anyone that if receive an email from them that ask for you to change your password because of attempts to log on your account from a foreign IP then it's a scam. I've already forward them to paypal and there investigating it.
I was born at night, just not last night

I wonder if anyone received email with no sender, subject or text showing. Impossible to block.
My financial institution told me it somehow will track to you rbank and then they will clean out your account.

 

[j_garcia]

#1 way to spot phishing is they do not address you by your username or your full name. If it says "Dear USER..." delete it. I keep getting the eBay one, almost every day, but oddly enough, I don't have that e-mail account registered with eBay.... Almost as good as the one that is asking me for my bank information when I don't have an account with that bank...

Another way to verify if the e-mail is valid is to simply log directly into the website that the e-mail is supposedly from. If they aren't asking the same question on the website when you log in, it's a scam for sure.