Paypal Scam

[FearoftheNight]

Is this bs?

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[zoiks]

Join the club.

 

[Rapidskies]

Yes it is fake, I get a bajillion of those a month.

 

[NogginBoink]

What's the URL behind the text 'https://www.paypal.com' in the email?

 

[exilera]

I think I got the same thing the other day. Someone's really gotta take care of that crap...

 

[mobobuff]

Fake.

 

[proxopspete]

You are not the first... and you won't be the last either...
Just NEVER click it!

 

[edmundoab]

see how they reference you,
original paypal emails will never ask for ur password or username
and will refer u as ur first and last name

some scam emails uses ur email reference to start off,
freaking fake one ! sigh

 

[FearoftheNight]

Glad I asked.

 

[Miramonti]

paypal will *always* refer to you by name if they contact you.

 

[ai42]

Originally posted by: exilera
I think I got the same thing the other day. Someone's really gotta take care of that crap...

Yes but how? 99% of these will be coming from foreign countries and with untracable senders. eBay (PayPal's parent company) could very well report every one of these to the FBI but what will the FBI do in a timely mannor? eBay can pursue the host of the bogus webpage but again they are often in foreign countries and hard to trace down or hard to contact ISPs providing service to these boxes.

PM me the bogus page addy (the actual addy not paypal.com) I have written a small program to fill in submit about 10,000 bogus email addresses/names etc. If they want to send me crap I'll send crap back

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: zoiks
Join the club.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: Rapidskies
Yes it is fake, I get a bajillion of those a month.