WARNING!!! Paypal Fraud Email!!

I've gotten several different fraudulent PayPal e-mails lately - sometimes they tell you that you sent thousands of dollars to someone successfully. They look pretty official, so I'm sure a lot of people click on the link to double-check their account.

If there's any doubt about what's happening with your PayPal account, you should always type it in directly rather than clicking on a link in an email.

Yea i know they been around years but the paypal email they used as reference i have only used through here and warriorplus so thought id share...
Cheers will certainly scan my pc now and make sure

I would change my password real quick since you clicked on the link.

When you receive these scams, PayPal wants you to forward the email to them.

Just forward it to spoof@paypal.com. You can verify this at PayPal.

Several times I have sent legitimate emails from PayPal to the spoof email, and PayPal confirmed they were really from PayPal.

PayPal does want to know what scams are coming to your inbox.

:-Don

Hello Warriors,

if you want to significantly reduce your risks to get scammed, here is a little rule to follow:

The only time you click, transfer, speak out or do any other action, make sure that its you who initialized the connection, and not the other way around. This applies not just for Email, but for other communication types such as phones, fax, websites, etc.

so next time somebody calls you or emails by asking to provide some personal information tell them thank you and hang up. If its something/somebody important such as your bank, you have their phone, email or fax.

so11

My sister was a victim of a fairly serious scam from a fraudulent "PayPal" email. She now knows to check 10 times first!

I recently received an email stating my account has been limited.I know it was not legit.

I am Surprised !

Thanks for sharing this information with us.

The saddest part about this is that it will never end! Some scams are pretty clever.

These phishing scammers are getting more and more clever. When you make a Paypal sale, they you send the "Notification Of Payment" e-mail, the e-mail we all love to see on our smart phones or tablets right.

They are also sending notification of payment e-mails. Though I don'f fall for these, it pisses me off because I might think I'll have X amount of sales that day, but then there are a few of them that aren't real, just a bunch of Phishers.

To quote an old salsa commercial, "That really chaps my hide!"

RoD

U should take the links out of that post. Just my two cents.

There is an option in Gmail to show you if the email is actually from PayPal or Facebook or any actual, verified, SSL based sender. However, it is not hard to believe that someone could click by accident or in a hurry.

That's why I have two step authentication for most important services. I think PayPal is the only one in which I could log-in with my email and password alone. They need to add phone based authentication too or better yet, token based.

Actually ...

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin?cm...outside&bn_r=o

Here are tips to look for.
Look at the email address of the sender. Scams will NOT have the exact PayPal address.
Scams won't address you by name.
Scams always ask you to click a link.

NO financial system will ask you to click links. They will tell you to log into your account to do...whatever.
Report all scam emails to spoof@paypal.com

Yes, it happens all the time and if your not aware you will end up with a big problem, about three years ago I got one of those emails about an Xbox that had been purchased, (funny thing was that I had just closed a fraud case where an Xbox had actually been charged to my paypal account and it was cleared up by paypal as fraud.

Then when this fake email came in, I acted before I realized the danger.

logged into what I thought was paypal, (looked like paypal) then it actually redirected me to paypal, (I was actually logged into paypal)

But the original page, was a harvester meant to collect your email and password.

I realized what had happened.

Closed the page out, opened a new SSL connection to paypal, verified it was valid and then changed my password.

(I can only imagine what would have happened if I had not been quick about changing that password)

After that I just ignore all emails and I never click a link in an email even if it is actually from paypal.

I just go to paypal directly and open an SSL connection.

If you are not sure whether a PayPal email is legitimate or not, here is what you do: Do not click on any link in the email. Instead, start a browser, go to PayPal and log in. If there is any urgent message for you, you will see it as you log in.

I'm embarrassed to say that I actually fell for one of those phishing scams about 2 years ago. I got a really professional looking PayPal email that said my account was limited and I was locked out of my account so I needed to click the link to restore my privileges.

Well, I guess fear or whatever overtook my brain and I did not think to check my PayPal account first so I clicked on the link and gave them my PP debit card # and security code and pin, etc. As soon as I hit the send button it hit me like a ton of bricks that I had just been successfully phished!

I didn't even get a chance to call PP and tell them to shut down my debit card and send me a new one before two charges for $39.99 each appeared in my PP account. I mean, this happened within 5 minutes! To make matters worse it turns out they were for porn site memberships!

I immediately called PP and explained the issue and I have to say that the PP rep was awesome and was very understanding. She immediately removed the fraudulent charges, cancelled and re-issued me a new debit card, and helped me change my password.

It was inconvenient because I was without my PP debit card for a couple of weeks but I managed by just transferring funds to my bank account from PP instead.

I always have to laugh when people complain about the PP reps. Every time I've ever dealt with them they have been super friendly and efficient and got my account back on track in less than 15-20 minutes!

Anyway, I will NEVER make that stupid mistake again!

You always have to be careful when you get any email from PayPal or even your bank account.

There are many scammers out there who will send these bogus email to members.

The best thing is to never click on any link inside the email.