**Freezing** yet ANOTHER PayPal Scam

[progex]

Someone ought to inform this to PayPal directly... Not the hosting company. What is the hosting company going to do, other than to just ban their account?

Can't any of these scammers ever do it with correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and grammar?

I can bet you that the scammer is from a foreign nation, and that PayPal won't be able to take legal action-- Nor will the hosting company.

 

[iwearnosox]

Paypal already knows about it.

 

[NerdMan]

We should get everyone to fill in bogus e-mail and passwords for this moron.

A little bit of payback is in order. Hmm.. 10,000 AT'er e-mails in his box?

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: Apollyon
I forgot to include their number:

1-888-257-2052

If it wasn't toll free, I probably would not have called. I'm cheap.

Keep in mind that if you call a 800/888 etc number, by law they can see your caller ID, and usually do (because of billing purposes) even if you have it blocked.

So do NOT call from your home phone, call from a payphone. Not only is it anonymous, but its far far costlier to do it from a payphone to these guys

 

My info:

email=you'refvcked@fbi.gov
pass=reportedtofbi

:disgust:

 

[recha]

Aww that sucks. Good thing I didn't sign up for a PayPal account. I was going to but then I don't think I will after this incident.

 

[Alphacow]

Originally posted by: recha
Aww that sucks. Good thing I didn't sign up for a PayPal account. I was going to but then I don't think I will after this incident.

Nothing is wrong with paypal, just don't submit your username and password to non-https://www.paypal.com sites

 

[Sandor]

Originally posted by: NerdMan
We should get everyone to fill in bogus e-mail and passwords for this moron.

A little bit of payback is in order. Hmm.. 10,000 AT'er e-mails in his box?

I agree. I've just been clicking the back button after I submit- my fake user ID will still be there, and then I submit again. Though they're not original, it is high volume.

 

[RotJ]

Site's dead. Good job everyone.

 

[kyutip]

I just got this email an hour ago. Notice that they changed the URL to www.paypal.com
For a minute I got confused because of the URL and then I saw that the link is not https but http.
This is the email that I got. I did not try to enter the site, why don't you guys try it and let me know

From: Paypal Support
To: xxx@xxx.xxx
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: Paypal System Update! Confirmation REQUIRED


Dear Paypal customer,

This email is to inform you of a recent update we made to our systems,
To avoid service Interruption we require that you confirm
your account as soon as possible.

Please take a moment to confirm your account by going to the following address:

http://www.paypal.com/secureverify/accounts/accountConfirm.html

Follow these steps:

1- Log in at the link provided above.
2- You account will now be updated, you may continue using Paypal services with out any interruptions.

*** Please note: If you FAIL to update your account, it will be temporarily disabled.

We apologize for any inconvenience..
The paypal team is working hard to bring you the best services on the web.

Thank you for your business.


The Paypal Staff.



*****************************************************************************************************************

Do not reply to this e-mail, for assistance contact the customer service team.

*****************************************************************************************************************

 

[liquidknight3k]

kyutip,

when i go to that site, it just redirects to www.paypal.com

 

[patrickj]

Thanks for the head up...seems to be a lot of paypal scams lately...:disgust:

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: liquidknight3k
kyutip,

when i go to that site, it just redirects to www.paypal.com

Maybe the scammers put the wrong URL in the spam/scam

 

[kyutip]

I just clicked the link and it gives me "The Page can not be displayed" message and the URL changed to
"http://www.paypal.com@paypais.com/"
Do you think that he tries to redirect it to www.paypals.com?

 

[ams30gts]

good heads up

 

[zxcvb]

Now suspended page, Good job shutting it down

 

[dahunan]

Thank you for the alert.

Please remember that even though PayPal isn't an official bank IT IS A BANK.

So treat it as such.

I can bet that scammers try to attack real online banks like this too.

 

[Oaf357]

Originally posted by: rival
another reason not to use paypal, man that thing sucks

Are you nuts?

1.92% Interest on my balance and 1.5% back on debit card purchases. That's better than most banks these days.

 

[AsukaStrikes]

who is the Paypal guy everyone keeps taling about?

 

[Kipper]

PayPalDamon. He's great to work out problems with or other issues you may have with PayPal...

 

[topcat903]

Originally posted by: rival
another reason not to use paypal, man that thing sucks

why would you blame paypal for this scam? i have been using paypal for years now and not a single problem. paypal are not the scammers, but those jerks trying to disguise themselves as paypal.

-fix the problem instead of pointing the blame.

 

[Shinj1EVA]

Aw, I wanted to leave some bogus accounts as well, but the site is shut down now. Well that's a good thing, hope other people didn't fall for this.

 

[IgoByte]

I HATE PAYPAL!!!

 

[BuckMaster]

ME TOO!

 

[Starfox]

thanks for the heads up! luckily i never get any e-mails like that,
heck, i don't even get any spam. weird eh?