Paypal Credit Card Scam

[1000MileStylez]

I got an email today from "paypal" stating they cant acesss my account..........

so i logged in and it asked for my credit card info which i did not enter, so i exited the browser and deleted my credit card funds from my real account. I changed my password since i used it to log into that fake website. I fowarded the email to paypal, just be on the look out.

 

[excobraguy]

Word of advice, never login to ebay, paypal, email etc. through a link from an email...............words to live by.

 

[unix_punk]

Word of advice, never login to ebay, paypal, email etc. through a link from an email...............words to live by.

X2... Always type in the address or have a bookmark you know is pointing to the real site(s).

 

[1000MileStylez]

well the reason i just jumped into the link was because i just sold some stuff on ebay and then i read this mail so im like WTF and the scary part too was that it looked like paypal down to every color and word etc etc.

 

[bison]

well the reason i just jumped into the link was because i just sold some stuff on ebay and then i read this mail so im like WTF and the scary part too was that it looked like paypal down to every color and word etc etc.

Ive gotten at least 3 of those in the last 2 years. Never clicked on the link though. I reported them to ebay but they never really do anything about it. I noticed the reserved trademark symbol was not present in the phony email on the paypal logo. No doubt its some piece of s hit form Nigeria. Scamming pieces of s hit. Never respond to any emails or any internet activity if you know the sender is from Nigeria.

 

[excobraguy]

Oh no! I just sent my bank account and routing info to the email from Nigeria telling me I had been allocated $10,500,000!!!!! Damn! You mean that's a scam????? I don't know how those people continue to get by with it........

 

[Butchman]

I gotten those paypal and ebay ones few times. One thing you can do is hover over the hyperlink and look view the address. It will make it clear that its not from paypal or ebay.

 

[klrv6]

Word of advice, never login to ebay, paypal, email etc. through a link from an email...............words to live by.

X3

And.. make sure you are running either IE7 with the phishing filter or Firefox with the phishing filter active.

If you're running from a mac, run firefox. Safari doesn't have anything to protect from these types of things.


and NEVER!!!! click on links in emails.

 

[bison]

Oh no! I just sent my bank account and routing info to the email from Nigeria telling me I had been allocated $10,500,000!!!!! Damn! You mean that's a scam????? I don't know how those people continue to get by with it........

They get buy with it often and nobody can take action against them thats why they do it. Refer to post #1.

 

[excobraguy]

They get buy with it often and nobody can take action against them thats why they do it. Refer to post #1.

Point taken :biggrin: