Re: IML: Possible phony PayPal email

["Frederick Joslin" <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx>]

I used to have a PayPal account, but discontinued it. Too easy to spend money and all of the other stuff that seems to go along with PayPal these days.

Now if I want to get anything on e-bay I use money orders. I get them for free at Bank of America. If the vendors do not take money orders too bad.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: dansgarage@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: IML: Possible phony PayPal email
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:52:38 -0800
>
>
> Hi Dave!...I had gotten the same email about 2 
> months back from what LOOKED like a real PayPAl 
> person who needed to check whethere or not it 
> had been myself who had ordered some items 
> using my PayPal account. As you said, it sure 
> LOOKED like it had come from PayPal! I 
> forwarded the email to the folks at PayPal and 
> they immediately emailed me back saying that 
> this URL WAS NOT !!!!!! one of theirs!!! I have 
> since read a few articles about scammers using 
> emails that will ask you about either updating 
> your PayPal account (or any other Credit Card 
> account you may have!) or saying something to 
> the effect that somebody has been ordering 
> items using your PayPal account (as they said 
> in my case) and ask that you click on some part 
> of this email and enter your PayPal email 
> address and then confirm your PayPal 
> Password!!! What happens I have been told , is 
> that clicking on this URL will redirect the 
> rest of your inputted information to the 
> scammers own site and NOW THEY HAVE YOUR PayPal 
> Password as well as your email login!!!! If 
> anyone has actually thought this was PayPal 
> asking for a confirmation and requestion 
> account or password information copy the URL at 
> the top of the page and forward it in an email 
> to PayPal telling them about it and asking if 
> this is REALLY PaypAl !!!......((and then, 
> IMMEDIATELY CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD and maybe your 
> email login as well!!!)) It almost never will 
> be since PayPal and other credit card compnies 
> WILL NOT ASK FOR YOUR INFO via an email!!!
> I don't know enough about these things to 
> understand how exactly the scammers get away 
> with all this stuff but it sure gets me mad 
> that there is no one to go after these low-life 
> individuals, and, at the very least, break 
> their typing fingers!
> Dan melnik
>
>
> ---- sosmi@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> =============
> I never thought to say anything at the time, 
> but about 3wks ago, I got an e-mail, a very 
> formal looking one, at that. It wanted to 
> up-date, and check information, on my e-bay 
> pay-pal account., this was for security 
> reasons. It sounded good, it looked good,( had 
> all the e-bay, and Pay- Pal logo's) however I 
> have never bid on, bought anything, or sold 
> anything on e-bay, and don't have a pay-pal 
> account. I just dumped it as spam. But now ,you 
> just have to wonder.Ya'll have a nice day, Dave
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: PNigelW@xxxxxxx
> e bay needs to tighten up its security and stop 
> refering to fraud as "spoof" I get 3 or 4 
> fradulent e mails per week pretending to be 
> various e bay mails, all asking for my account 
> details, if the mail isnt in your "My e bay" 
> file it isnt from ebay.
>
> However last weekend I posted a listing on the 
> US e bay site, ebay.com, my account is through 
> ebay.co.uk, with no reference to me e bay 
> removed the listing and suspended my account.
>
> When this happens it is very difficult to contact e bay, as you cant sign in!
>
> Apparently e bay thought it was an unauthorised 
> third party listing, quite why as all the 
> details were mine, I do not know and trying to 
> find out from them their reasoning has been 
> impossible.
>
> be vigilant as there is much fraud about, it is 
> normally quite obvious if you look carefully, 
> always read and reread the description and all 
> details before bidding...
>
> apologies to anyone who doesnt think this is Imperial based.
>
> Regards
>
> Nigel Plant
>
> 1929 L*80 Convertible Coupe by Locke
>
>
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Fred Joslin