Pay Pal Scam

[Dan]

It looks like I got an email today from someone trying to get my Pay Pal account information. I got the email at 4:00 pm today and it said I had until tomorrow to update my account or I would lose it. I went to Pay Pal and logged in, and there was nothing there that was asking for an up date. Here is the email that requested my info.

PayPal Accounts Management !
Saturday, September 19, 2009 4:14 PM
From:
"Security Center" <tp-verify@accouts.net>

I tried to copy the text from the email, but it wouldn't let me. Just be careful not to answer email requests too quickly, especially when it has to do with $$$

[bassinman#1]

They do not know how to spell accounts, Hmmm!!!!!

[matt]

Report it as phishing to your email server. It will help stop them,I don't know how efficient my email server is but it sure seems every time i report it i don't get the same one again.I used to get those too.


I've gotten "you won the lotto" email 3 times 2 weeks ago...but it's somewhere in Africa.I don't remember buying any lotto tickets from there. LOL. Since I reported it i haven't gotten any lately...I don't even open them anymore,i just report it right off the bat.

[djkimmel]

Report Paypal phishing attempts by forwarding the email to spoof@paypal.com to help them work to disable sites that attempt fraud. I get several a month.

Good practice to never click on links in email. You can always just type the web address in by hand if it is the right one like www.paypal.com.

Most of these links will say one address, but display another one at the bottom of your browser if you hold your mouse over it (but don't click on it). Even it has paypal.com somewhere in there, it might be to somewhere else if it is not the root address - like

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paypal.com.123.456.789.09/steelyouridentity.html will not go to paypal.com when you click it but some other site with that IP address of 123.456.789.09 instead probably to a page that looks like paypal.

[Dan]

I did send Pay Pal an email. These emails are quite devious and shouldn't be taken lightly. Good advice from Lt. Dan.

[djkimmel]

Many companies on the Internet have a spoof@ email address, but not all. Some have a reporting mechanism to contact them about suspected fraud usually in their contact us chain.

I've been getting a bunch of these "IRS payment underreported" email lately too. Very annoying. You can report fraud and spam also to spam@uce.gov to sick the government on them.