Paypal Scam

[Tecumsea]

The following dropped into my E.Mail box this morning-obviously a scam but I thought it might be worth posting-would hate anyone to be caught by these Bastards.

Dear PayPal Customer,
We need your help resolving an issue with your account.To give us time to work together on this,
we've temporarily limited what you can do with your account until the issue is resolved.
we understand it may be frustrating not to have full access to your PayPal account.We want to work
with you to get your account back to normal as quickly as possible.

What's the problem ?
It's been a little while since you used your account.For reasons relating to the safe use of the PayPal service we need some more information about your account.
Reference Number: PP-001-328-274-893
It's usually quite straight forward to take care of these things.Most of the time, we just need some more information about your account or latest transactions.
1. Download the attached document and open it in a browser window secure.
2. Confirm that you are the account holder and follow the instructions.
Yours sincerely,
PayPal

 

[elgreco]

Good one Keith.
All you need to double-check is see the "salutation". If it is a genuine Paypal e-mail, it would have your own personal name - e.g. Dear John Smith - and not just 'Dear Paypal customer'.
We recently had one saying that another e-mail user had been added to our Paypal account and we were asked to verify it. Just never click on links given in emails like these. We went on our Paypal account through the web browser and double-checked the profile users (no additional users had been added).

Be safe online ...
Cheers,
Celine

 

[Wings5797]

Hi Keith,
Thank you for the heads up.
I had someone clone my debit card and open a Paypal account with it and Paypal were most un-helpful when I contacted them.......in Asia of course.
Cheers,
Keith

 

[Mookie]

Had this few times!!.Wasnt paying attention and got done by fishing.Have had my card cloned and the delightful person bought nearly 800 quids worth of cloithes for kids.Bank sorted it then the shop that the clothes were bought from sent me a catalogue which was nice of them i thought NOT!!!!!.
Just be careful me thinks.
From Richard

 

[Funky50]

Hello it might be worthwhile saying that you should never never ever use a link from any e mail purporting to be from any bank or financial bodies they never do this, only scammers directing you to their site...Had one supposedly from the Inland Revenue saying saying they owed me money(like Yeah thats gonna happen)and to click the link to give my bank details for the refund.... so that may be another to keep your wits about you for ....

 

[Richie]

Hi All,
Don't ever open, simply forward to [email protected]
cheers
Richie

 

[montythefirst]

There's another one circling that says that a credit card transaction has occurred on your account that was unauthorized again asking for download of attachment etc.

 

[Tubby-Nuts-REMOVED]

What these, 'phishing', e-mail's are looking for is, a knee jerk reaction, and to a certain degree! Panick! from the recipient. Do as, 'Funky50', recommends, never open, or divulge any account details! .. In the last few months I have, apparently had problems! from every registered 'Bank', in the uk!.......... If only I had that many accounts. Also check your 'Anti-Virus', so see if it includes a 'Phishing' filter! These 'Buggers can be sneaky!

Ps, Pilgrim, you may want to slightly edit, your comment! While I can understand your anger, at those who have life-challenges, being targeted, there are probably more people, that have limited computer knowledge in general.... Call it innocence or naivety.... There is more than one generation, in this world, that is still capable of breathing....

Mark

 

[Babelfish]

I receive PayPal and bank scam mails at e-mail addresses that I don't even have linked to any account.

These guys adopt a "scattergun" approach. They just sent out mass mails and even if only 1 in 1000 falls for it, they've got a result.

Their ruses are usually easy to spot, but as Carl rightly says, even otherwise intelligent people can occasionally get caught out if they don't know what to look for. I've seen some quite shocking cases on these "watchdog" type programmes on TV.

Basically: NEVER give out any personal information (especially PIN numbers and the like) in response to any e-mail. Genuine mails from banks etc. will also address you by your name and not "Dear Customer" etc., will NEVER threaten to "limit your account unless" and will NEVER ask for PIN numbers or "confirmation" of any personal details.

Other dead giveaways are bad spelling and grammar, and senders in the Far East or Africa (Nigeria and Burkina Faso being particulat hot-spots for Internet fraud).

Remember that and your chances of getting fleeced are drastically reduced.

- Steve

 

[Babelfish]

There's another one circling that says that a credit card transaction has occurred on your account that was unauthorized again asking for download of attachment etc.

Oh yeah, and NEVER download (or even so much as click on) any attachment or link if you don't know the sender. And even if you do know the sender, it's always best to think twice.

- Steve

 

[Osebor]

I've benn warned by the IRS, the USPS, and scores of banks from the US and elsewhere, and all that without moving from Spain! (also from banks here.. in english!) Someday maybe I'll write a book about that...

Internet surfers, BEWARE!

Regards
Javier

 

[steve j]

i've had a few lately that were reciepts for payments i hadnt made and said to request a refund ect when the amounts were for £40 and £50 it was a close call it almost had me the first time

 

[DEL]

With all the Accounts I have in all the Banks I use.........'by this time next year Rodney we'll be millionaires'

 

[montythefirst]

i've had a few lately that were reciepts for payments i hadnt made and said to request a refund ect when the amounts were for £40 and £50 it was a close call it almost had me the first time

yeah had that one to If i get any emails like that i always log in to paypal to see my transaction history

 

[megroot]

I got his one a several times and from other banks also.
Never open a email from a bank......they don't ask anything from you with email..only by mail.

My mailbox has every day more SPAM then descent emails.

Marc

 

[Carlos69]

Here's another one ! Say what they want and hide behind a false name ....

Zzzzz....

 

[Alex Long]

Hey Pilgrim, next time you post something, try and make it have some worth.

Alex.

 

[Pilgrim_uk]

The Irony Alex. Carlos what difference does it make if I had my real name up? If you have a problem with the post report it to the admin as we can't really say what we want on forums they are benevolent dictatorships.

But we digress as its continuing away from the OP.

 

[theBaron]

"...when the son of the deposed king of Nigeria emails you directly, asking for help, you help! His father ran the freaking country! Ok?" --Michael Scott, The Office

Prost!
Brad

 

[John Bowery]

They even copy all the logo's and artwork.
John