PAYPAL SCAM

[Ray Scully]

Received this
Don't know how true it is but posted just in case

Ray

Look out for PayPal scam! U will get an email from pay pal saying they have taken £35.50 from your account to pay for your Skype account, there is a section at the bottom which say click on to dispute. If you click on this it brings up a fake pay pal page and asks you to put your email and password in, DON'T as this is how they get control of your account! Please share with all friends

[Kendhni]

I have no idea if this one is true or not Ray but it leads to a good point .... NEVER trust a link that you have used from any email if it then asks for user name and password. particularly for banks etc. you are best to type in the url or store it as a favourite (although again, both those can be 'got around').

[Silver_Shiney]

Genuine Paypal emails always address you by name (Dear Fred). Fakes always address you as Dear Customer or similar.

Copy the extended headers (how to get this depends on your email software) and forward the entire email to spoof@paypal.com, pasting in the extended headers at the top of the email body.

Do the same for any other phishing emails supposedly from banks (even if it's your own bank) - Google for "phishing email [bank name]" to get the appropriate address.

As Ken rightly says, NEVER trust a link within an email - quite often, if you hover the cursor over the link you will see the true email address. I'm currently receiving a shedload of phishing emails "from" a number of banks, all coming from some tosser with a fuse.net account.

Also, if possible, don't type in your PIN number if a dropdown box is available, use the dropdown and select the appropriate number with your mouse - any tracking software already on your pc cannot detect mouse clicks.

[Dark Knight]

I love getting these from other banks, PPI people, Paypal, carrier services etc as I have never used any of their services and do not do use online banking or use e bay
the only thing I do over the internet is Amazon, always on me credit card and thats it, my favourites are the endless texts telling me I have xxx thousands waiting for me, if only I do xyz, i reply to each one requesting they send me my money toot sweet, as yet I have not recieved a cheque??
however you can fool some of the people, some of the time.....sadly

[Silver_Shiney]

I used to get a lot of "419" emails (where the sender has eleventyfive zillion dollars and needs your help to get it out of the country).

Most offered me 20-40% of the money. One offered me 10%. After copying the email (with tweaked extended headers) to a temporary email address, I replied to him, saying that his other criminal colleagues were offering far higher returns and if he really must try and con people, at least be competitive.

[Mr-big-bits-mk2]

Never ever click on a link sent via email.

Some of the fake sites they take you to look exactly like the real sites such as Paypal or your bank but will be there to either try and harvest your log in details or sometimes dump a bug on your PC.

SS is correct in that Paypal will always address you by your name in an email.

[Not so ancient mariner]

If you get any communication you have doubts about, forward it to spoof@paypal.co.uk. They will let you know if it is kosher or not, and more importantly, if it is a scam, can attempt to do something about it.

[Silver_Shiney]

If you get any communication you have doubts about, forward it to spoof@paypal.co.uk. They will let you know if it is kosher or not, and more importantly, if it is a scam, can attempt to do something about it.

but only if you provide the extended headers, as I said earlier! Otherwise they've got nothing to go on.