BEWARE! PAYPAL SCAM!

[Army2001]

I received an e-mail today from Paypal supposedly...It asked me to verify my account and I clicked on the link and noticed it was and ip address that the site waas hosted off of. If you get an e-mail like this delete it immediately!! You can read the message I recieved below...They also messed up the grammar a few times and worded some thing funky...

Dear PayPal member,
At PayPal, we value the trust you have placed in us by using our service to conduct your transactions
online. Because our relationship with you is financial in nature, the protection of your privacy is particularly
important to us.

We are sending this verification notice due to small technical failure in PayPal's safeguard system,
members who does not verify their account within one week will have their PayPal account freezed until they
have successfully verified, and this applies to both personal users and businesses. The full terms of PayPal's
privacy policy are available on the PayPal website, which you are welcome to review at any time.

Please verify your account and financial information by clicking on the link below:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=verify

*** DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ***


pff...They have to do better then that

[lenjack]

this has been around for several months, It's been tried with ebay as well.

[Army2001]

yeah, I remember reading it on here, just kinda pointing it out that they might be starting it up again maybe...but whatever...just informing people

[Scott Tiger]

Thanks for the info. Something like this is worth repeating every once in a while.

[iseeu_3]

did any of you get that email about that Nigerian prince needed help getting his money out of the country or something like that? funny stuff! some people actually believe that crap!

<shad>

[embj]

This PayPal scam is nothing new. I'm surprised I haven't gotten one here in the past couple of months. And, yeah...I did get something like that iseeu_3. I got something about the Bank of China and me inheriting money. What a crock.

[Aaron_J]

I received an Ebay version today: (note the ~ebay.com@gci-zaq.com)

Dear eBay User,

During our regular update and verification of the accounts, we could not verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
As a result, your access to bid or buy on eBay has been restricted. To start using your eBay account again, please update and verify your information by clicking the link below :


http://cgi3.ebay.com@gci-zaq.com/eBa...=445&ap=0&dz=1


Thank you very much for your cooperation!

eBay Customer Support

Remember: eBay will not ask you for sensitive personal information (such as your password, credit card and bank account numbers, social security number, etc.)
in an email.

Copyright 1995 - 2003 eBay Inc. All rights reserved. Designated
trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

[Aaron_J]

Just for laughs I filled the info on that page using fictious info. It logged me in and took me to a screen to fill in my credit card info(of course).

They have a script that checks to see if you are entering a credit card number that follows the proper format so I found an old card that has been canceled for years (I'm a packrat)

Anyway it took me to this page:

Credit Card Update Process Successful!
Credit Card Account Number : 4121-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
Expiration Date : Jan-2004

Your Credit Card has been approved *(pfffft, riiiight), and placed on your eBay account.

The card will be authorized for your use and will be billed during routine monthly invoicing.

You can view your account status at:
ViewAccountStatus


And people fall for this?

*(even if I hadn't canceled it, that card would have expired in 2002)

[Droppyale]

Thanks Army

[bombledmonk]

I filled it out too except filled it out with a bunch of dumbass remarks and swearing. just for the hell of it.