Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AWMac on June 27, 2008, 09:04:26 PM
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Dear PayPal Member,
As part of our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment for the online community, we regularly screen account activity. While reviewing your PayPal accounts, we observed activity that we would like to further verify. For this reason, limitations have been placed on your account until your will review your registered intormation. In order to resolve the account limitations, complete our online form by clicking on the following link:
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After we have gathered the necessary information, your account will be reviewed for reinstatement and you will be notified by e-mail of our decision.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Account Review Department
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I've never had a PayPal account.
Yes!!! Here is all my Checking and Savings Account information along with my SSN, Mothers Maiden Name, Pets Names, Birth Dates of all my Children and their Names and my passwords to my computer... Please secure my PayPal account from the Evils of the World.
:huh
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I've received those before. Reminds me of scams to get people's Steam accounts (for Half-life). You'd get an email saying we need you to send us your username and pass etc...
But the email would be like steampowered@hotmail.com
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It's called "phishing."
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My dad had the same thing happen to him. But it was wierd, because a guy with almost the exact same credit card and was accidentally buying stuff on his credit card. But it was never anything bad, just always 2 or 3 $$ stuff about once a week.
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Mac, save your email....just call me with your newest, highest limit credit card number. I'll take care of the rest for you!
:aok
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Thank Gawd for friends... info on its way REP0.
Gotta trust him, he's a cop.
:D
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I got something similar about a year ago... and do have a paypal account. The emails/links provided do appear to be authentic. Shame that folks do stuff like that.
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A couple little sayings of advice will keep most people out of trouble.
1. If it ain't yours, don't monkey with it.
2. Never give information to someone you haven't contacted first.
Legit companies do not contact you asking for personal information. If it's something that worries you, call the company's phone number and find out what's up.
Les
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FWIW, just forward those emails to spoof@paypal.com. I think they're interested in such things.
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What's the guy from LifeLock's SSN?
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What's the guy from LifeLock's SSN?
:rofl Too late, his account got broken into. Not kidding!
There's another guy that sends phishing e-mails trying to get personal info to ebay account holders.
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I am surprised this didn't fool you, Mac.
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Anyone could be fooled by an e-mail like that. Anyone. All it takes is one lapse of judgment. Remain alert!!!
Les
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I got something similar about a year ago... and do have a paypal account. The emails/links provided do appear to be authentic. Shame that folks do stuff like that.
Shame that a lot of folks are too ignorant to notice it is happening to them. Kudos to those of you who catch it.
One of the best ways to thwart these people is to be vigilant of your finances.
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I got something similar about a year ago... and do have a paypal account. The emails/links provided do appear to be authentic. Shame that folks do stuff like that.
Got one like it a couple of days ago. When you scroll over the link it is to Pavpal instead of PayPal. :)
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all those companys have a fraud div, copy the e-mail and it's header and send it to them , they will tell you if it's real or not.
do not use the link provided in the email. there will be a link on the real site.
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all those companies have a fraud div, copy the e-mail and it's header and send it to them , they will tell you if it's real or not in six to twelve months if things are running smoothly.
Fixed.
About the only thing you will get is the CYA statement. "This email did not originate from < insert name here >.
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I see these things all the time as my wife is an avid e-bay / paypal user. Every time she gets one she lets me check it out before she deletes it. I look up the domain name, usually something along the lines of www.cunow.com/paypal.html using whois and find out who the contacts are which I then forward to my State's Attorney's fraud office.
Paypal, E-bay, your own bank will tell you that they never ask for this information in an email.
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FWIW, just forward those emails to spoof@paypal.com. I think they're interested in such things.
They are.. and they actually succeed. I forward the ones I get to spoof@paypal.com all the time.. and never get any repeat e-mails from the same sender. ( whereas other spam I get many )
There's also one for ebay ( spoof@ebay.com )
One of the isps on a spoof link was a sub-domain off of a yahoo account .. I forwarded it to yahoo's customer support pointing that out, and that site disappeared real quick.
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Phishing, definitely.
Sad but one of my friends fell for it.
ROX
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I get those phishing emails from time to time.
If I'm not busy I reply to them with completely phony numbers and the most outrageous names and passwords I can think up.
Joker
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They are.. and they actually succeed. I forward the ones I get to spoof@paypal.com all the time.. and never get any repeat e-mails from the same sender. ( whereas other spam I get many )
There's also one for ebay ( spoof@ebay.com )
One of the isps on a spoof link was a sub-domain off of a yahoo account .. I forwarded it to yahoo's customer support pointing that out, and that site disappeared real quick.
Note to self*
Stop sending those emails to Drone. He's on to us!
<snicker>
:aok