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| Hawkeye_Joe |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 05:32:26 AM
If you use ebay and use Paypal and have a Paypal account you may receive an e-mail asking you to verify your account by giving them credit card information. This is a SCAM !!Do not give them anything...the site link will take you to a site that is "EXACTLY " like the Paypal site.. but it is not PAYPAL...Do not give them any info they will steal your identity and you will be in a world of Do-do..
And yes.. this is an E-mail I received.. I'm not just passing on a bogus alert I rec'd..
Never give out your PIN numbers or Social Security Number to an On-line questionaire. |
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| Scott Bubar |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 11:51:04 PM
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Victims beaten, killed ...
Sometimes convincing a victim to hand over all his money (or at least an overwhelming portion of his savings) isn't enough - there have been instances of victims who have gone to Africa to meet with the supposed Nigerian officials, only to end up mugged, badly beaten, and even dead. The victim's cash and credit cards are taken (to be sold on the international market), and anything whatsoever of value is ripped from the victim's person.
Nigerian Scam Letters
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| Hawkeye_Joe |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 6:57:29 PM
There is the link to Ebay's Security head's up on how to spot these "Spoof E-mails"
Check it out on their site....it gives you a lot of good info...
Bill I think they said a lot of this stuff is coming outta Russia....
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| Carter |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 6:01:23 PM
I got that same Ebay email but didn't answer because I thought, "Who has time to jump through these stupid hoops for Ebay?" I guess this is one time my cracky attitude kept me from getting into a jam. LOL! |
| Bill R |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 3:10:17 PM
"It must be making them a ton of money".
And hopefully, making them some significant time in the slammer. They will be caught eventually.
The one that rankles me to no end is the repetitive spam I get from some potentate or another from "Nigeria". Wanting to launder money through my account. Sometimes it's just some bozo from Florida or some such (one guy WAS arrested running a copy cat program like the Nigerians), but I did check the DOJ website and there is a significant program based out of Nigeria to rip businesses and old folks off from their money. It's like a national income and state sponsored/tolerated. Some folks have fallen for it. They think they are going to get to keep 10% of millions, give out their bank account info for the "transfer" and wake up next morning finding it drained of everything. Stupid huh? Usually the elderly fall for this due to their limited knowlege of internet and computers. You gotta be careful out there folks. |
| Hawkeye_Joe |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 2:29:13 PM
This one spooked me a little.. it is so convincing that some people will fall for it. I went to the site to put in the info they wanted to see where it would take me. The site is an "EXACT" duplicate of Paypal. I even navigated thru the site with the real PAYPAL site open in another window... it is a very deep copy ...everything was there..even three or four links deep. Very scarey..some one went to a lot of trouble. It must be making them a bunch of money. |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - October 29 2003 : 08:41:05 AM
This is apparently an ongoing problem that has been around for a while. See below.
Hoax eMails Continue to Plague eBay Users
By Ina Steiner, AuctionBytes.com
November 07, 2002
Hoax emails are continuing to make the rounds, sent by cyber-criminals trying to obtain private information from eBay users. When eBay sellers receive an email from Support@eBay.com beginning, "We regret to inform you that your eBay account will be suspended if you don't resolve your problems," they often panic. Some eBay users are going to the spoof sites linked to in the email and entering their user names, passwords, social security numbers and credit card numbers.
A hoax mail we encountered continued, "To resolve this problems please click here and login to your account in order to resolve your account problems. If your problems could not be resolved, your account will be suspended for a period of 3-4 days, after that it will be again operational. Please do not replay to this email. Sorry for inconvenience."
We spoke to an AuctionBytes reader who was scammed. "I feel like a fool, but even as seasoned at eBay and the Net as I am, I fell for a scam. I came home yesterday and received an email from support@ebay.com saying my account was in question and that I needed to submit all my account personal information immediately or I would be closed down. I am right in the middle of 135 auctions and freaked out. So I did exactly what they said."
PayPal has also been plagued by spoof sites. PayPal spokesperson Vince Sollitto said the company has the ability to trace payments, and they can reverse unauthorized transactions. But he warned users to be careful, and said they should change their passwords periodically. Passwords should be made up of letters and numbers, and a longer password is better than a shorter password.
The best way to prevent being taken in by email hoaxes? Don't panic, and don't click on links. Always type in the URL of the Web site in your browser window.
"Why click on a link?" Sollitto said. "Just type in www.paypal.com."
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