Fraudulent Paypal emails...

Diebels

Hi, i know we had this subject before but today i got again an fake PayPal notification claiming that something with my account was wrong. I realised thats fake because the email got to an email account wich is not listed with paypal. So i clicked the link and it got me to a login page similar to the original one from Paypal. I just put a funny email adress and password in and got to this page

You see this people asking for the ATM Pin, Paypal never would

be carefull
Diebels

tony

lol - scams are scummy.

jeffsolodky

I love giving boguss email addressing like "yousuck@******.com"

exarkun

They may be hoping to trick newbies and noobs with it. It is good if someone managed to catch them and put whatever stop to their action.

Ray Salamon

I get these things all the time... almost twice a week actually. It's kind of damn annoying... but, also, at the same time... I missed a real one in my mass deleting of these fake ones. I went to log in to the real paypal once and had to go through some steps to get logged in. Oops.

-Ray

loco5niner

I got this one a couple months ago. I sent an email to paypal with all the info, and figured they'd at least respond... oh well. I'm sure they get those all the time too...

Roman

Be aware of emails saying
You have purchased....if you did not authorize this transaction, click here
You have added new email address....if you did not, click here
etc.
never click on any links of course, just type in to your browser http://www.paypal.com and login from there
Also common thing for these fraudulent emails is they do not
include "Dear First Name+Surname", however just "Dear PayPal Customer" or "Dear (your email address)", it is because these fraudsters have just your email address , not your full name and it is easier for them to send thousands of "Dear PayPal member" with no customization.

However there is also second type of Fraud related to PayPal/eBay.
Someone is buying from you some item, usually laptop, mobile phone on ebay. Then he is asking to send that item to "my husband, it should be a present for him, he is currently in Nigeria" for example
And then suddenly you will receive an email from PayPal telling you that payment has been initiated and will be credited to your paypal account as soon as Paypal verifies the shipping information you have to provide by replying. Many people in good faith send the item and reply to "paypal" .... and never see their money, because that email was not sent from payPal however from the fraudster itself, who just copied all the paypal logos and craeted this email. Paypal would never send you email like this.
Be cautious! (in this econd type of emails customer gets that email with Dear First name+Surname, it is a personalized email, not sent in thousands copies)