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Posted: Sat Apr 16th, 2005 05:26 am

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I have been recieving a large number of spoof emails from spammers attempting to get me to log onto FAKE websites in an attempt to give them my Paypal details. I suspect others may be recieving these so here is a warning.

Some of these emails are very clearly fake linking to some non Paypal site but others use very clever coding to fake the status bar of the browser so when you mouseover links it looks like its a link to a real paypal site. However when you right click on the link and look at the properties you can see it goes to another site or sometimes you even need to look at the actual html code to see the link which is sometimes encrypted.

Anyway Paypal will never ask you to log onto your account via an email you are sent unless they have sent you cash - they haven't sent me a fake one of these yet but even be careful with these because its only a matter of time. So alway use your bookmarks or more safely type the address into the browser directly.

Here is a statement from Paypal about what to do. I also forward the message to spoof @ paypal.com straight away.

PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone claiming to work for PayPal asks for your password under any circumstances, by email or by phone, please refuse and immediately contact us via webform at https://www.paypal.com/wf/f=sa_pass

Last edited on Sat Apr 16th, 2005 05:29 am by admin

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Posted: Thu Apr 21st, 2005 05:49 am

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I have also received about a dozen spoof mails, some "from paypal" and some "from ebay" I have reported mine to ebay at:

ebay <spoof@ebay.com>. I don't know what it has accomplished but I gat a message back today saying they had turned it over to "authorities"

I didn't know that paypal also had a spoof group, next time I shall send it to both.

As admin said, be very careful. All they want you to do is go totheir web site and give them any personal information they can use to rob you. Or to create fraud.

Michael :-)

Last edited on Thu Apr 21st, 2005 05:51 am by mikeb380

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