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Offline Philby

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Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« on: May 28, 2013, 06:17:51 PM »
Look out for a scam email supposedly sent from PayPal, the email states that you have paid a sum of money for an online Skype account, and if you didn't authorise the payment to click on a link. The email looks legit but is a total fraud, needless to say I didn't open the link, but can guess that they would be needing passwords and card details to amend the "unauthorised payment"! If you get this email, forward it to spoof@paypal.com and delete it.



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Re: Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2013, 08:38:05 PM »
Thanks for the heads up!

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Re: Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2013, 08:39:33 PM »
Good to know...  :salute:

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Re: Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2013, 04:10:29 AM »
A good practice with any email that ask you to log in is to never click the links, but open a new window and type in the address yourself and log in there.

If you look at the actual address the link goes to, the scam always goes to something like paypal.gimmeurmoney.com, never the actual paypal.com, so easy to tell. Doesn't matter what the address say, what's important is the part immediately before .com (or other legit extensions). Though careful it's not paypal.com.fakeaddress.ng or something like that.

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Re: Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2013, 01:28:21 PM »
yeah paypal spoofs are not really new...

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Re: Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2013, 01:30:37 PM »
Every day for the last 6 weeks I've gotten a "PayPal" reciept for a $150 payment to eBay.

If I were rich enough to spend $150 every day for 6 weeks, I might have believed them!

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Re: Scam email Targeting PayPal users
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2013, 12:19:29 AM »
yeah paypal spoofs are not really new...

True, but recently they've become quite a bit more frequent. I think I got about a dozen in the last week or so. Two today. And that's with my private e-mail.

 

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