Beware PayPal Fraud
Posted on January 3, 2008 |
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Ever heard of “Phishing?” According to Wikipedia it is
an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
Dear PayPal Member,
This email confirms that you sent $62.75 USD tocurrier6178@aol.com.
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Here’s the 2nd email:
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Dear PayPal Member,
This email confirms that you have sent an eBay payment of $42.75 USD to aathomas67@hotmail.com for an eBay item using PayPal.
Payment Details
| Transaction ID: | |
8H273150XN822260H |
| Item Price: | |
$42.75 USD |
| Total: | |
$42.75 USD |
| Order Description: | |
Digimax 148 |
| Item/Product Number: | |
(4198125720) |
Note: If you haven’t authorized this charge ,click the link below to dispute transaction and get full refund (Encrypted Link )
*SSL connection: PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available)
Item Information
| eBay User ID: | |
aaroncarterworld |
| Name: | |
Kevin Frase |
| Address: | |
164 Timber Crest Drive |
| City: | |
York, PA 17404 |
| State: | |
United States |
Kevin Frase has provided an Unconfirmed Address. If you are planning on shipping items to Kevin Frase, please check the Transaction Details page of this payment to find out whether you will be covered by the PayPal Seller Protection Policy.
If your email program has problems with hypertext links, then you may also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at www.paypal.com/us. On your My Account page you will find a “Confirm Your Email Address” link. Click on this link and enter the following confirmation number:
1242-2584-9350-3815-5762
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
According to PayPal they will never ask for personal information in an email. Also, their emails will address you by name. Notice the two emails I received say “Dear PayPal Member.”
PayPal also suggests that to be safe you open a new browser and open www.paypal.com from there. Never click on any links in an email to get to the site. Like the email above, the landing site may be fake.
You must be careful! These emails are playing on fear and they hope the person reading them will panic, click on the email link, and enter their information!
As a note I use FireFox as my web browser. When I clicked on the email link a FireFox window popped up say Suspected Web Forgery. At least FireFox is looking out for me.
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- Christina said: We took almost identical steps when we went to one income just over a year ago.
One thing we did, that you didn't mention, is to raise our insurance deductibles on our vehicles. Yes, it's a risk if we're in an accident, but you do tend to drive more cautiously.
You could on What We’re Doing To Adjust To One Income - That One Caveman said: That sounds like the exact same steps we took two years ago as we prepared to go to a single income. I'm so glad we did it and you will be, too! on What We’re Doing To Adjust To One Income
- MeLu said: Do I ever know what you mean, we went to a one family income over a year ago. Our income was cut in half, but our spending did not stop. I've now realized that we are in deep trouble. Lucky I'm old enough to draw social security but that is not enough so I'm on What We’re Doing To Adjust To One Income
- Nicole said: Good for you. It must be a tough change to make but it sounds like you are doing all you can to make it work. on What We’re Doing To Adjust To One Income
- Mercedes said: I saw this earlier but now I can comment now that the kids are in bed. I just wanted to drop by and offer support to both. I was miserable in my job thinking of everything I was missing with my child. And I did miss a lot, now that I have a second on What Is Raising A Child Worth - We’re Going To One Income
- Christina said: We took almost identical steps when we went to one income just over a year ago.
One thing we did, that you didn't mention, is to raise our insurance deductibles on our vehicles. Yes, it's a risk if we're in an accident, but you do tend to drive more cautiously.
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I once got an email from someone at forbes.net, claiming that forbes wanted to inclue my blog in something or the other.
I just distrusted the .net ID and deleted it.
Good of you to publicise this new scam.
Wow. I can see myself getting excited receiving an email like that. These frauds seem to come in all shapes and sizes don’t they?
I’ve gotten such an email amongst other scams and I can’t tell you how much it bothers me!
But gmail does a pretty good job of forwarding all of these types of junkmail to my SPAM folder.
The other big scam I’ve received are from investors from India trying to allocate their funds here recorded to be in the millions! Ha! Yeah right!
@ricardobueno - For sure these PayPal emails aren’t the only scam emails I’ve gotten. Gmail does do a nice job of recognizing what’s bad. And some of those emails are really bad! It’s hard to understand how anyone can be fooled by some (I guess that’s a good thing). Some of the stories are amusing to read. The PayPal one with the logo though, I can see a lot of people logging onto the fake site. That’s what scares me.