motv8tr Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 I got this in one of my e-mail accts tonight.... "Dear valued PayPal member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records in maximum 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. To update your PayPal® records click on the following link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run Thanks for using PayPal! This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed. If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com. Copyright© 2008 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners." What's interesting about this is that this e-mail acct is not associated or registered with PayPal....I hope some trusting soul doesn't fall for it....keep an eye out folks.... Maureen
Governator Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 I'm pretty sure the real paypal would at least put copyright 2009 at the bottom lol...
solopaddler Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 I received the same one yesterday as well.
bullybass Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 I clicked on all 3 links and the first 2 do indeed go to Paypal and the third one goes to a site ran by Washington Mutual insurance. I don't really think it is a scam. You probably just haven't used your paypal in a long time. But who knows. you will find that real secure websites that require any personal info from you will start with https instead of http... the s stands for secure. I only opened them because I have a mac and am not really worried about viruses. I am not a pro but they don't seem like scam links to me.
John Bacon Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 If you are ever in doubt about an email from Pay Pal, you can forward it to [email protected] I would say that the one above is some sort of "phishing email" to get your account information.
superdad Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 PHISING - PHISING - PHISHING Just delete and move on
GoneFishin Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Report it to PayPal and they will deal will it very quickly. i got one of those before and I emailed paypal and they emailed me back not even 10 mins later telling me it was a fraudulent email and that they were taking care of it. I must say, some people come up with some pretty impressive scams though.
camillj Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 I clicked on all 3 links and the first 2 do indeed go to Paypal and the third one goes to a site ran by Washington Mutual insurance. I don't really think it is a scam. You probably just haven't used your paypal in a long time. But who knows. you will find that real secure websites that require any personal info from you will start with https instead of http... the s stands for secure. I only opened them because I have a mac and am not really worried about viruses. I am not a pro but they don't seem like scam links to me. When you see emails like this do NOT .. repeat NOT .. click on any of the links .. in fact just close and delete it immediately .. unfortunately even just moving your mouse around can permit nasty events to occur ... clicking on a link that you are suspicious of could do alot more than download a virus ... you could be 'permitting' a program to execute on your computer that could do literally ANYTHING ....
bullybass Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Apparently my bad... but like I said... it did nothing to my computer and actually linked to paypal... except the last one.
Baldy Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Apparently my bad... but like I said... it did nothing to my computer and actually linked to paypal... except the last one. What they want you to do is to go to Paypal and log in to your account, then they find out your password through keystrokes and rape your account. Don't know exactly how they do it and don't care (ignorance & apathy at work) but these people should be prosecuted to the full extent, or make them get a real job like the rest of us.
bullybass Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Oh... ya.. that would be really bad then. Thanks for the explanation because I really didn't know that they could do that. I hope she emails paypal... I want to see the outcome of this. Thanks Baldy.
Tinman Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 got the same one a few times, kept deleting,
camillj Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Oh... ya.. that would be really bad then. Thanks for the explanation because I really didn't know that they could do that. I hope she emails paypal... I want to see the outcome of this. Thanks Baldy. Ok folks listen up - this is serious stuff !!!! No matter what you THINK you see ... the fact is, the folks that make this stuff are BAD GUYS and they spend alot of energy and they WILL fool you... even if you think you are reallllllly smart....I have been doing this stuff for 30+ years and EVERY SINGLE DAY I see something new. When you got that email and just by opening it (not only when you clicked on the link) there is a good chance that a program which logs your keystrokes and later sends them to the originator has been installed without asking or telling you ...in this case, you then get led around to legitimate sites to do legitamate things so that your private information can be stolen ... and even though spy-blockers and virus software do their best to identify, detect and block these actions, they cant always get the job done. And NO you are not immune on a MAC or on a LINUX box ... its just that fewer bad guys spend their time working on attacks targetted specifically for these platforms ... and its not because they are safer or harder to fool ... its just because fewer of them exist (for now) ... but if you behave 'unsafely' you WILL get burned sooner or later ... in the win-tel world it takes about 5 minutes (or less) after you connect if you are not properly protected ... and even then you will see wierd things happen if you go messing around in the 'grey market' ... especially gambling and porn sites and places where you are offered things for free which you really SHOULD have to pay for .... OK .. no more preaching ... lets get back to fishin
tjsa Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 I have received at least 4 of those exact e-mails the last 9 months. But, I don't have a registered paypal account. BEWARE.................just delete the message.
OhioFisherman Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Maureen, used to by and sell a lot of reels on e-bay years ago, that was one reason I stopped. Way to may phishing attempts.
motv8tr Posted January 25, 2009 Author Report Posted January 25, 2009 I knew it was a scam and reported it as phishing, did a search as well and it has been around for a few years now.... Maureen
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