This one for real. PayPal scam

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Stephen Hamilton

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Folks, this was sent by a well-trusted friend. It is not a joke. Since many of us use paypal, it is on-topic and I hope will prevent a problem. Do NOT give your info out in response to an email, this is a scam.

Stephen

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From: info@paypal.com
Date: Thursday, March 06, 2003 17:27:18
To: (Note from Stephen: I removed the person's E-dress)
Subject: Your PayPal account is Limited.


Dear PayPal Customer


PayPal is currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and placed on Limited Access status. Protecting the security of your PayPal account is our primary concern, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

To restore your account to its regular status, you must confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:
Email Address:
Password:

Bank Account

Enter Bank Account #:

Credit Card

Enter Credit Card #:
Exp. date : 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 / 03 04 05 06 07


This notification expires March 31, 2003

Thanks for using PayPal!
This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com/.

Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
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Probably not. As long as you never give out your password or credit card # in response to one of these verification things.

It's not a new kind of fraud though. :mad:
 
Agreed, Bruise. Paypal isn't the problem here, the problem is somebody posing as Paypal trying to obtain your financial information. A Canadian friend recently lost money to another outfit whichsent a "back door Trojan" (whatever that is) via her always-on cable connection. It searched out accounts and passwords, then transmitted those to the crook. She lost $900 from her bank account to a legitimate company called "Cyberwallet" and would never have known until too late had Cyberwallet not been on the ball. They called her to verify the deposit, naturally she was stunned. However, Cyberwallet froze the funds, returned them immediately and assisted in the bank's investigation. Running an antivirus discovered the Trojan and eliminated it.

These E-money guys are trying to run clean businesses but there will always be the cons lurking around the fringe trying to trap the gullible. Where there is money, there are thieves. Imagine the danger it poses to, well, HI (just to get back on topic)if we all don't stay on our toes.


So: How happy is everyone knowing that we are moving towards a cash-free society?


Stephen
 
There is a program do-hickey thing that saves your passwords. I don't know if it's a download or a part of windows. Something to look for and delete. I don't store any passwords on my machine. I have em' written down somewhere on a piece of paper.

A little freeware program called ad-aware works well (although it goofed up my windows once) :( to get rid of spyware.

I like knives.
 
Bruise,
Do you have a link or web address for ad-aware?
That might be something worth getting.
 
I just saw this AM where some hacker got his hands on 1000s of social security numbers. And a week or so back a hacker got 18 million (I think) credit card numbers. The world is full of crooks and I hope they all go straight to hell.
 
Downloaded ad-aware this afternoon and ran it on my laptop. It found and removed a hidden "spy". Kinda scary, electronic warfare cranked down to the household level.

Thanks Bruise, that one recomendation probably saved me a whole lot of anguish and turmoil.
 
Besides that eMail that asks for your PayPal info, there are also ones which ask for your eBay info.

Never respond to any of these.
Neither PayPal nor eBay will ever ask you for that info by eMail. They may look “official” but are just scams.

If you have to change or update your PayPal or eBay go directly to the site using your regular URL, not through an eMail provided link.
 
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