PAYPAL SCAM!

[smartcap]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!

Apparently there is a new PAYPAL scam out there...we got a suscpicious email in our account this morning titled "PAYSECURITY", this email asked us to verify some pretty confidential information.

We were suspicious of this email and contacted PAYPAL...and were told that the email did not orginate from them. We have forward this email to PAYPAL.i

Here is a copy of the email:





Dear PayPal Customer

This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.
The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.
Please confirm your email address and and Credit Card info number by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

Email Address:

Password:

Full Name #: 

Credit Card #: 

Exp.Date(mm/yyyy) #: 

ATM PIN (For Bank Verification) #: 



This notification expires May 31, 2003

Thanks for using PayPal!


This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com/.

Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

 

[tsee]

Do not reply to this thread! It doesn't belong in this forum. Lock it up and throw out the key!

 

[Krioni]

While this really does not belong here, I think it's worth keeping open and bumped since so many of us A'techers use paypal for selling and buying things.

Should probably be moved to the for sale/trade forum though.

 

[Ness]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1036102&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=992826&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1051714&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=



Not only is it a lame post, it's a lame post that has been made before.

I hate it when people don't understand that a "Hot Deal" is a "good price"... not "Bad Price/I got screwed (eg: people saying "NOT HOT!")" "Look out for this and that scam" or crap like that. Yes, the subject matter is close, but it is NOT a HOT DEAL to post that stuff. This belongs in Off-Topic and no place else. Then you will get the people that say "Well I never read those so thanks!".... doesn't make it any more acceptable. You read this forum because you are looking for hot deals, not because you are looking for paypal scams, so don't post them!


This really isn't that hard of a concept.

 

[AJPatel]

Originally posted by: ness1469
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1036102&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=992826&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1051714&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=



Not only is it a lame post, it's a lame post that has been made before.

I hate it when people don't understand that a "Hot Deal" is a "good price"... not "Bad Price/I got screwed (eg: people saying "NOT HOT!")" "Look out for this and that scam" or crap like that. Yes, the subject matter is close, but it is NOT a HOT DEAL to post that stuff. This belongs in Off-Topic and no place else. Then you will get the people that say "Well I never read those so thanks!".... doesn't make it any more acceptable. You read this forum because you are looking for hot deals, not because you are looking for paypal scams, so don't post them!


This really isn't that hard of a concept.

pwnt

I agree. Not only have all the good deals stopped being posted here after the damn left-side ad, but it seems every other post is a scam.

 

[Ness]

Oh and, futhermore, the following comes with about every email from paypal. Anyone who isn't smart enough to read it when they first sign up but smart enough to read every bit of a fraudulent email is just plain stupid, and there is no helping them to begin with. Thanks.

Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.

A genuine PayPal link will always begin with https://www.paypal.com/.

Remember to check your browser's Address/URL Bar to be sure you are on the real PayPal site.

If the URL does not begin with https://www.paypal.com/, you are not on a PayPal page.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please see the Security Center.

You should never give your PayPal password to anyone.

 

[Budmantom]

I just received one of these emails, thanks smartcap.

 

[jozone]

THIS IS HOT!

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: jozone
THIS IS HOT!

Sometimes information is hot.

 

[StayPuff]

Originally posted by: Budmantom

Originally posted by: jozone
THIS IS HOT!

Sometimes information is hot.

Yep

 

[dannybin1742]

i got this same email and just let it sit in my inbox, paypal has never asked me for this info via email, so i figured it was a scam.

thanks for posting this here, everyone should know about it.

what i don't understand is how the email can be postmarked XXXXXX@paypal.com

how can they get access to paypal sources

 

[skarydrunkguy]

Let all the idiots out there that dont know any better than to give their soc# and cc info to every moron that calls or emails asking for it go broke.

Darwin's Law - survuval of the fittest. We need to weed all these braindead crack monkeys from the useful members of society.

 

[sk3tch]

It is easy to spoof email...this is why PGP and other digital signing methods are important.

Plus...don't be a jackass and send ANY confidential info via email to ANYONE...I mean c'mon...this is why SSL exists on websites people...to secure the communication between your browser and the web server handling the transaction. Email is plaintext to the world (unless you're using encryption of course).

 

[lotust]

i wish someone would scam paypal and not us

 

[RDMustang1]

Originally posted by: dannybin1742

what i don't understand is how the email can be postmarked XXXXXX@paypal.com

how can they get access to paypal sources

They don't have access to "paypal sources" .. They have access to a mail server that does not require authentication (lots and lots of these around)... You can send mail and make it look like it's from any address but if you know how email woks then you can always tell if it is forged by the headers.

 

[Nutzo]

I got one of these last week, tracked down the hosting site & reported them to both the hosting site and to PayPal. It was shut down by the next morning.

However, when I first tracked it down, the text file the hack was login the information to was accessable, at it looked like about ever 10th or 15th person was actually filling out all the information ! There must have been 2-3 dozen people who where stupid enough to fill in the email.

There where about 2-3 times that many that told him where to go and the rest where blank.

 

[InfraggableKrunk]

ATM PIN ... um yeah thats pretty obvious

 

[Ranger X]

PAYPAL SCAM!

Surprise, surprise.

 

[bonk102]

Originally posted by: tsee
Do not reply to this thread! It doesn't belong in this forum. Lock it up and throw out the key!

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: skarydrunkguy
Let all the idiots out there that dont know any better than to give their soc# and cc info to every moron that calls or emails asking for it go broke.

Darwin's Law - survuval of the fittest. We need to weed all these braindead crack monkeys from the useful members of society.

What a stupid thing to say.

 

[huesmann]

Another one? Sigh.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: Budmantom

Originally posted by: skarydrunkguy
Let all the idiots out there that dont know any better than to give their soc# and cc info to every moron that calls or emails asking for it go broke.

Darwin's Law - survuval of the fittest. We need to weed all these braindead crack monkeys from the useful members of society.

What a stupid thing to say.

"Darwin's LAW".....LOL

 

[dnoyeb]

I always look at these scams. I am a smart guy, but I won't deny to being socially engineered. So I always look and try to give myself an honest evaluation of wether or not this would have got me. I was looking for the website address that the info was sent too, but didn't see one.

Was this a reply by email request, or a click the link request?

 

[Bomex]

check the source...and the form gets sent to this address... http://www.paypal.com@www.dmt-services.com/pp.php (notice the S is missing in http)
now maybe some1 1337er can hack thru the rest...?

 

[bonk102]

this is not a hot deal, can we move it to off topic maybe?