New Paypal fraud e-mail

HTubbs · December 17, 2004 8:07AM

reads:

<< <i>Dear valued PayPal® member:

It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before December 21, 2004.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_home

Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside
>>

of course if anyone goes to paypal's website under security you can read this:https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fraud-prevention">Linkwhich easily shows it as a fake.
I forwarded it to paypal's fraud line.
-Hayden

flaminio · December 17, 2004 8:36AM

Yawn. They're all fake. By now, even if PayPal wanted to send out a legitimate email, they wouldn't because there've been so many phishers.

Barry · December 17, 2004 8:43AM

Paypal does send out periodic aanouncement s and updates. They all begin Dear "your actual name inserted."

21Walker · December 17, 2004 9:29AM

I have Earthlinkand this stuff gets put in 'SPAM' or 'Suspected spam". Then I delete without opening. PAYPAL will be allowed into your regular email if you have a 'spam' blocker........either way, if you know you're OK with PAYPAL...... delete the rest of the sh--, ie: payment recieved from phonecaller......Rick

TWODOGS · December 17, 2004 9:32AM

I delete all emails that don't have a female's name and the mention of a webcam in the title.

MrLee · December 17, 2004 10:58AM

Deadhorse · December 17, 2004 11:22AM

You can simply download a program called Spoof Stick. It resides in you browser(s) and will tell you where you actually are. Ie; what website you are really on, regardless of what your URL window says. It's great for things like banking, paypal, etc. via online.

I got that email a few days ago and while I was certain it was phishing I proceeded and clicked on the link. Spoof Stick gave me the actual IP address. I went ahead and filled out the phishing page with lots of colorfull language and then after business hours I used a fairly massive network, pushed a server command and showed them what a DOS attack can do. I shut that page down!! Crashed their server big time.

I also sent the actual IP and tracert log to paypal's abuse/security folks.

Next time I just might pull out a nuke program, probe a few ports and see if I can just format their system for them.

Sometimes when you go phishing you might get a bigger bite than you planned on.

dthigpen · December 17, 2004 11:25AM

This thread was DOA

New Paypal fraud e-mail

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