**Warning about fake Paypal e-mail!!**

[CAMAROBOY69]

Please warn everyone of this Paypal fake e-mail.

[SIZE=+0][SIZE=+0]Last week I replied to this e-mail because it truly looked legit. It even makes you log directly into your Paypal account on the site. I found out on Friday that someone used my information and took all the money from my bank account. Not from my paypal account but directly from my bank account. My bank called me because they suspected fraud. They were right and I currently have 0 money in the bank. After I called Paypal they confirmed that this was indeed a fake e-mail. Do not reply to the fake Paypal e-mail. ​

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This is what it looks like below.



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From: service@abuse-paypal.com [mailto:service@abuse-paypal.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:01 PM
Subject: PayPal Account Security Measures

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

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/ema/index-outside

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/req/index-outside

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

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

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address.

If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However if you are the rightful holder of the account,click on the link below to log into the account and follow the instructions.

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It takes at least 12 hours for the investigation in this case and we strongly recommend you to verify your account at that time.
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Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account.
PayPal Account Review Department.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.
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[Alex.]

I've had about 50 of those and I dont have a paypal. Sorry to see you replied. What's gonna happen to your money?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I've had about 50 of those and I dont have a paypal. Sorry to see you replied. What's gonna happen to your money?

I have to go to the bank today after work and they are supposed to return all the money back into my account. I will need a new bank card and new number.

The major problem is not with my bank its everything else this peron is doing with my information. He/she is applying for other credit cards which means this could go on forever. I have been trying to contact the 3 Credit Beaurus and have them freeze any activity but at this point it has already been 4-5 days since he got my infromation. Which means he could have applied for a LOT of cards by now.

So I imagine I will be getting a lot of phone calls and mail for a while until this gets worked out.

 

[daan]

Nice one. Putting the actual links in your post here...

It's called "phishing" and it happens all the time. Companies will never ask for your details, and paypal & ebay and the like will have your username in the email.

If you fall for it, you deserve all you get.

 

[Mark T]

Always check the senders e-mail address aswell. service@abuse-paypal.com looks dodgy straight away. I just pasted service@abuse-paypal.com into Google and the first link was a phishing scam warning.

The best thing to do is to log straight into your Paypal or Ebay account by going to paypal.co.uk/com or ebay.co.uk/com. If they need anything from you there will be a warning or message waiting for you.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Always check the senders e-mail address aswell. service@abuse-paypal.com looks dodgy straight away. I just pasted service@abuse-paypal.com into Google and the first link was a phishing scam warning.

The best thing to do is to log straight into your Paypal or Ebay account by going to paypal.co.uk/com or ebay.co.uk/com. If they need anything from you there will be a warning or message waiting for you.

Huge learning lesson for me for sure. Our work blocks just about anything and I have never seen any e-mail like this. So for this to slip through really seemed legit. I admit I was really really stupid for falling for it. I cant deny that and I will pay the consequences for sure. Hopefully my ignorance will help others avoid this problem.
I was able to get ahold of 2 of the Credit Bureau's and put a fraud alert on the account.

 

[Mark T]

Huge learning lesson for me for sure. Our work blocks just about anything and I have never seen any e-mail like this. So for this to slip through really seemed legit. I admit I was really really stupid for falling for it. I cant deny that and I will pay the consequences for sure. Hopefully my ignorance will help others avoid this problem.
I was able to get ahold of 2 of the Credit Bureau's and put a fraud alert on the account.

As long as you learn from it that's the main thing. Sometimes these things can take a while to sort out and get your money back. A tenant of mine wasn't able to use his account for three months.

I can imagine alot of new users and elderly people must get fooled by these schemes quite alot.

 

[Famine]

Mouseover would have saved you.

Like in this link here: http://www.paypal.com/...

 

[wfooshee]

None of these entities, Paypal, eBay, your bank, your credit card companies, whoever, will EVER send you an email asking for your bank information. These scams are older than the Internet. Somehow.

Hey. Famine's link doesn't work!!!! I was ready to send him all my money. I figured he'd double it or triple it at least, and get it back to me! HOAX!!!! Nicely done, though, showing how a link doesn't mean what it says.

Who has the nerve to register that to some certain IP somewhere?

 

[Touring Mars]

A decent email client (like Eudora) will actually tell you that the link is dodgy when you roll over it with your mouse... 💡

Unfortunately, most web browsers don't explicitly warn you, although as Famine demonstrates, you can still see the actual URL doesn't match what the link says...

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

A decent email client (like Eudora) will actually tell you that the link is dodgy when you roll over it with your mouse... unfortunately, most web browsers don't explicitly warn you, although as Famine demonstrates, you can still see the actual URL doesn't match what the link says...

We must not have a rollover thing that you are talking about because when I put my mouse over Famines link, nothing happened at all.

 

[Touring Mars]

What web browser are you using? In Firefox, you can see the real URL in the bar at the very bottom of the screen...

 

[Famine]

Even Internet Explorer 6 shows the real link at the bottom of the window...

 

[Mark T]

We must not have a rollover thing that you are talking about because when I put my mouse over Famines link, nothing happened at all.

 

[daan]

I tried to giveallmymoneytofamine.com, but it didn't work. I'll send it through the post.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

What web browser are you using? In Firefox, you can see the real URL in the bar at the very bottom of the screen...

Internet explorer 7. I dont see a bar at the bottom of the screen either when I put the mouse over his link.
EDIT: This is a screenshot of what I see when I put my cursor over the Famine link.

 

[Robin]

I never reply to any emails from paypal, ebay or any banks because I just dont want to take the risk. Most companies say they will never contact you this way on serious matters anyway... and if it is legit whats the worst that could happen?... I doubt it would be a situation where you would loose any money... you stand a greater risk of loosing money by answering them!

Robin

 

[Touring Mars]

Internet explorer 7. I dont see a bar at the bottom of the screen either when I put the mouse over his link.
EDIT: This is a screenshot of what I see when I put my cursor over the Famine link.

It's a bit late now, but perhaps you should switch to a better browser... atleast your plight and this discussion will maybe warn a few people and/or inform people what to look out for...

Some of these scams are really authentic-looking, and I'm not surprised that even web-savvy folks can fall for them occassionally... PayPal, ebay etc. are all excellent "fronts" because people only ever deal with them via the web anyway, hence a web-based demand for info is automatically less likely to arouse suspicion.

I hope you get your money back, and when you do, please don't give it to Famine

 

[buickgnx88]

I have IE 7 and have the bar at the bottom.

 

[wfooshee]

If you don't have the bar at the bottom, select it from the View menu. It can be turned off and on there.

Edit: Ha! I win! tree'd daan. And it's the same in IE7.

 

[daan]

To get the bar at the bottom, click on view, then status bar.*


I can't check on IE7, but that works on IE6 and Firefox.

Tree'd

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

To get the bar at the bottom, click on view, then status bar.*


I can't check on IE7, but that works on IE6 and Firefox.

Tree'd

I just checked that and now it works. I have a status bar. 👍

 

[Famine]

I hope you get your money back, and when you do, please don't give it to Famine

Shhh!

 

[Dave A]

I've found that I keep getting emails from Nat West asking me to confirm my account instructions. The emails do look very authentic, or at least I assume they do as I don't have an account with Nat West and as a result any genuine emails to compare them to. It's a very common thing now in my experience to get emails like this. I've contacted Amazon.co.uk about a fake email I received posing as them a year or two back which they confirmed was a scam, but most of the ones I've had were for sites or companies I have nothing to do with.

 

[Sureboss]

I've never had any e-mail from my bank or any other places. (Though helps that being 20 I don't have a credit card, and have just one bank) If I did, I wouldn't reply to the e-mail, I'd go down my local branch and sort it there. If the bank sends an e-mail to your account their records would show, I always like to deal in person. Hate phone or e-mail to sort things out, though I use internet banking, as it is so unbelievably easy.

 

[Zrow]

Man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I leave in 30 minutes to try and resolve this issue with the bank. I will reply tomorrow with the results.

 

[V1P3R]

I've receive that email many times, look at it, and delete it. If I do anything I go straight to paypal first to see if I have the same notice or new alerts. I think I've receive something similar for eBay too which I ignore altogether.

 

[gibson]

Just got one of those, blew it off, thanks OP.

 

[Sureboss]

Am I the only one who never gets phished? I've had about 1/2 phishing e-mails in the whole time I've had an e-mail address (5 years).