Scam me again? Not this time!!!!

11 years ago

Its pretty easy to figure this out, simply mouse over the link and see where the url is taking you. No way a scammer can setup a page on the legit site itself.

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greenowl123

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Sillysoft

Its pretty easy to figure this out, simply mouse over the link and see where the url is taking you. No way a scammer can setup a page on the legit site itself.

Yeah, always look down in the left corner of your screen to see what the URL actually is before clicking on it.

And... PayPal, Banks and others will begin with https:// which is another clue to look for...

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glennshep

11 years ago

Originally Posted by greenowl123

Yeah, always look down in the left corner of your screen to see what the URL actually is before clicking on it.

And... PayPal, Banks and others will begin with https:// which is another clue to look for...

Yep, these are good tips. But my advice would be to absolutely NEVER click on any hyperlink of anything that appears to be from your bank, PayPal, eBay, YouTube, etc or basically anything that then requires you to enter any of your sensitive data and/or passwords. If you get an e-mail says that there is an issue with your account or that you need to login for whatever reason then by all means check up on it but only do so by manually entering the URL yourself in your browser and never, ever from a hyperlink in an e-mail. If you're in any further doubt then contact directly whoever it is who's supposedly sent the e-mail. And if you find that you have been sent a scam e-mail like this then report it - it's more than a scam, it's fraud and attempted theft

Most organizations have a specific system in place for reporting things like this so if you report it and provide them with a copy of the full code of the fraudulent e-mail then they will pursue it themselves

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hiimjones

11 years ago

I'm getting tons of those emails as well, they do look pretty real but luckily that scam was revealed on the news so hopefully not too many people enter their details.

Hope you get your money back soon!

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angshuy2k

11 years ago

This is really sad and if you see one of my thread where, I was moaning. You will figure out, what they tried to do with me-

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ity-theft.html

Originally Posted by Jeff Caceres

Last November, it was one of the biggest scams that I ever dealt with. I received an email from my "bank" that my account has an unauthorized login that risks in changing my transaction password of my debit card, which the hacker (that I don't know) has copied the exact template of my bank. So what I did was clicked the link from his email and entered all of my details for resetting the transaction password on my debit card. BAD ME!!! After entering all of the details, it leads me to a fake page.

So I immediately rushed to my bank's ATM to check my balance, and I found out that he took almost $400 from me, and I only have more than $200 left (good thing my bank has limits), and I also requested them to block my card, and they did it. They found out that the 2 huge transactions was coming from Entropay.

It is a huge loss for me, but I just kept my cool. But I am not giving up until I got my money back. I have already submitted to them a letter of dispute, so that they can immediately take action, which may take several months or even longer. I am now working hard to get back all of the money I have lost...

Then once again after a few months, this one happened......

Few hours ago, I received an email from "Paypal" that they have limited my account.

Oh really? This different hacker is really smart to copy Paypal's template. I smiled a bit.

So I login to my Paypal account (not clicking on the link from the hacker's email) to check if this is true or not. Good thing, it's not true! So the one who emailed me is a phisher.

Hey you hacker, your attempt has failed!!!!

Now they cannot outsmart me whatever they are trying to hack and steal my money. I have already learned my lesson on my biggest loss in November, and I am not going to let that happen again!

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Raydal

11 years ago

Always log in to your account by typing in the links yourself
and never from a link in an email.

A new one for me was an email I received from a Pastor
friend saying that he was stranded in the Philippines where
he was doing some missionary work and lost his wallet
but needed to pay the hotel bill. According to the email
he would not be allowed to leave without clearing this
bill so if I could wire the money to him and he would
repay me when he returned to the U.S.

The email came from his account and everything seemed
legit except I can't imagine he would ask me such a favor.
There are a lot more favorable (family members) options
he has. This was a neat scam indeed.

Of course, I just ignored the email.

Hope he is not still stranded in the Philippines, not that
it's a bad place to be stranded.

-Ray Edwards

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buffnstuff

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Raydal

Always log in to your account by typing in the links yourself
and never from a link in an email.

A new one for me was an email I received from a Pastor
friend saying that he was stranded in the Philippines where
he was doing some missionary work and lost his wallet
but needed to pay the hotel bill. According to the email
he would not be allowed to leave without clearing this
bill so if I could wire the money to him and he would
repay me when he returned to the U.S.

The email came from his account and everything seemed
legit except I can't imagine he would ask me such a favor.
There are a lot more favorable (family members) options
he has. This was a neat scam indeed.

Of course, I just ignored the email.

Hope he is not still stranded in the Philippines, not that
it's a bad place to be stranded.

-Ray Edwards

I had the exact same scam attempted on me last year. I had a little sport with the scammer to see if he actually would reply and he did. Finally I asked him if he was really my buddy to tell me what my nickname was and also how we met. I never heard another word from him.

I eventually contacted my buddy a few weeks later and told him what happened. It turns out his email account had been hacked. Gotta love these scumbags. NOT!

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writeaway

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Raydal

Always log in to your account by typing in the links yourself
and never from a link in an email.

A new one for me was an email I received from a Pastor
friend saying that he was stranded in the Philippines where
he was doing some missionary work and lost his wallet
but needed to pay the hotel bill. According to the email
he would not be allowed to leave without clearing this
bill so if I could wire the money to him and he would
repay me when he returned to the U.S.

The email came from his account and everything seemed
legit except I can't imagine he would ask me such a favor.
There are a lot more favorable (family members) options
he has. This was a neat scam indeed.

Of course, I just ignored the email.

Hope he is not still stranded in the Philippines, not that
it's a bad place to be stranded.

-Ray Edwards

There is a mobile phone version of this scam as well. People even do 'wrong number' dials using this same script. Unbelievable.

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buffnstuff

11 years ago

Also check the detailed header information on those emails. You will notice that it's not coming from the real web / email address. It's called spoofing and it's sort of like an anchor text link, where the actual URL is masked by what looks like a legitimate link.

It's always a good idea when you receive any kind of email like that to suspect it of being a phishing attempt and contact the bank, PayPal, etc. directly from their real site or give them a phone call. NEVER trust an email, no mater how legit it looks. ALWAYS suspect the worst possible scenario and don't click any link wanting any personal information.

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salegurus

11 years ago

Say Hello To My Little Friend

Just a few hours with the culprit and one of these ^^^, call it therapy...

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louie6925

11 years ago

Its sad, but thats the online world for you! thankfully most IMers are pretty savvy to this sort of scam, but there are billions of online users who are so vulnerable it makes me sick that people think they can just steal peoples hard earned money.

I personally hope they buy a slap up meal with the stolen cash and then choke on it!

..........disgusting human beings!!

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talfighel

11 years ago

Just so you know, PayPal will never ask you in an email to enter your password through a link in that email.

They always recommend users to go to their site directly and log in from there.

Also, for your browser, make sure that you use the S so it will look like this:

https://www.paypal.com

The S stands for secure.

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mikeac

11 years ago

Best thing to do in these situations is to call the bank themselves and verify if they even sent the email, and get a verbal from the account rep that your account is at risk or if everything is fine.