Beware Of This Pay Pal Scam!

by TheCoach

Posted: 11 years ago 32 replies

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There is a Paypal scam that is going on. If you get this email DO NOT click on any of the links inside the email! The email looks like the real deal. If you are not sure about any Paypal issues simply log into your account directly. Here's to email to be aware of:

#beware #pal #pay #scam

bhuff85 11 years ago

Same old phishing scam that has been going on for years. Nothing new, really. Anytime I get these, I just report them directly to PayPal and they take care of it.
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MilesSharma 11 years ago

But how do they manage to send from service@paypal.com?
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- David Burnett 11 years ago
  
  Thanks! Haven't got one of these... but I'll be on the lookout.
  
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- RobinInTexas 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kdsingh
  
  But how do they manage to send from service@paypal.com?
  
  Standard pfishing tactic: forge the return address.
  
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  ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
  
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- mrgoe 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kdsingh
  
  But how do they manage to send from service@paypal.com?
  
  THey don`t, that can be changed to mask the real sender
  
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- Karen Blundell 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kdsingh
  
  But how do they manage to send from service@paypal.com?
  
  it's called email spoofing - and it's done all the time- unfortunately.
  
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- ShareThisContest 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kdsingh
  
  But how do they manage to send from service@paypal.com?
  
  Email spoofing is done with very simple scripts and it is very easy to notice that.
  Usually, in "From" you will see email@domain.com VIA email@realdomain.com
  
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  Daniel Evans 11 years ago
  
  Old as the hills.
  
  Set up your spam filters / message rules to auto bin these.
  
  You'll know if there's ever something wrong with your PP acount when you login.
  
  You should never be clicking through any link in any PP / pseudo PP email.
  
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Shannonn Banned 11 years ago

Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us. I have never received anything similar from them until now, but I will be more careful from now on. Thx again!
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JasonB 11 years ago

When you get something like this, just send it to spoof@paypal.com

Holla!
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laurencewins 11 years ago

There are lots of those emails around. Usually the email isn't accurate and on the odd occasion that it appears accurate, it's still fake. Paypal would never ask you for information or tell you to click a link. They would tell you to log into your account from your browser.
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- commerce cat 11 years ago
  
  Here are some tips on how to check if an email is a phishing attempt.
  
  Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email
  
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RobinInTexas 11 years ago

I get more of them to my email addresses not affiliated with payPal than I do at my payPal email.
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praveenshkgp 11 years ago

Thanks man for putting this here
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DeanJames 11 years ago

Always login from your browser directly. Never from an email. As soon as you hover over the links you can see they are going to different domains (but never login via email anyway. Never).
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Mark Singletary 11 years ago

What's interesting here is that they use your name. I assume MoneySiteContent is your Paypal user name?

Normally these emails say "Dear PayPal user" or some such but real emails are always addressed to the account holder such as "Dear John Brown".

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articlesarthors 11 years ago

That one looks really good! I would still doubt that it is a real link and report it as spam. Thanks for the heads up though, I am sure there are a lot of people who wouldn't think twice about clicking that link.
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- Jordan Hunter Banned 11 years ago
  
  This is exactly the reason I never click ANY links from PayPal emails I get no matter how convincing the email. If they want something from me there is typically a message waiting on my account or I call and have them verify what it is they are wanting from me.
  
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akashbd 11 years ago

Congratulations sharing this thread for warning. I always open any account directly through browser and delete like this fraud email immediately.
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Jake Draper 11 years ago

Thanks for informing people who don't have a clue. Personally, I'vew never opened any email that says it's from paypal. It's always a scam. I've never had 1 email from PayPal in 10 years, unless it was a "received payment" or claim issue. Everything else should be obvious it's a scam.
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PNVMike 11 years ago

Never login from an email. Always login from your browser directly.
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onlinesolutions1985 11 years ago

Thank's for the warning I will be alert for this kind of message.
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waqascheema 11 years ago

they use fake email programs ...
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- MarketMaster13 11 years ago
  
  Thanks for the alert,I will be careful about this.
  
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jessiem 11 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. I will spread the news to my friends.
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niftystats 11 years ago

I getting 10 e-mails daily with this shit
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Willie Crawford 11 years ago

With these email, even when you hover over the links, they often
look legit... until you look closer at the domain and see that
it's not really the standard Paypal.com, but some other domain
where they have perhaps set up a subdomain that has paypal.com
in it.

As has already been suggested, always log into your Paypal account
by typing the url that you normally access Paypal via into your
browser. If there really IS a problem with your account, you would
then see a notification when you log in.

If you click through to one of these scams, you're likely to land
on a page set up to look just like Paypal's log-in page, and if you
fill out the form there, you've just given someone your Paypal log-in
details... and they can now take over you account.

Be careful

Willie
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JohnyEnglish 11 years ago

Paypal itself is a big scammer con artist
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- joseph7384 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JohnyEnglish
  
  Paypal itself is a big scammer con artist
  
  Just had to get your dig in. how does your statement relate to the OP.
  
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kinyash 11 years ago

Thanks for letting us know.
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Lewis T 11 years ago

Probably just Paypals Scam Department trying to leverage some free cash before they review their phishing emails.

./wouldntbesuprised
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- heavysm 11 years ago
  
  If you had any doubt whatsoever, wouldn't you just open your actual paypal account using another window? (not using the email links)
  
  I recall only one unfortunate reported incident where the person's paypal was actually limited at the time so they mistakenly fell for the email strictly due to coincidence
  
  Otherwise this is a pretty easy scam to get around.
  
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