Re: Warning: Paypal scam!

Yeah, got an email from eBay that I bought 3 cell phones, and gave a
link of where to go to dispute the charges. The site was asking me to
log in, of course.

Using some tricks of the trade, I identified the site as a web page on
a K-12 school in Atlanta, GA. I guess the kids were trying to get
account info to sell. Too bad for them other info on the site listed
their names, homework, etc!

Quick phone call to the school and the site was down in 10 minutes.
Not sure what happened to the kids. I'm tempted to call them at home
(that info was also there) and ask.

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Too bad Paypal e-mails come from @intl.paypal.com

I had one day charges on my Paypal account when I logged in to check
something, I lost $70... I had never authorized these charges, but they
were very real. Paypal was of no help except to reverse the charges...
of which it was too late because it went through my bank. I lost $70
from Insufficient Funds charges. My bank refunded $35 out of the three
$35 charges I had on my account.

I had three charges over $400 to "OffShorePC", which I had never heard
of.

I am now against using Paypal.

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Borgschulze said:

I am now against using Paypal.

Do you know how your account info got compromised? Ever log on to
Paypal from an email or anything similar? Probably not, but somehow
somebody got your account info.

For everyone else, between 2003 and 2007 hopefully you have learned to
never click links in *any* email to go to an account of yours. Ever.
One way to spot this is if you can see what the link is in your status
bar or similar without clicking on it. If it starts with an IP address
instead of company name, easy spotting of bogusness. But sometimes they
look a lot like the real thing, with names like "paypal.info.com." The
thing to be aware of is that the site you're connecting to there is
info.com, not paypal.com. It's always the last thing before the .com,
.org, etc.

Sorry about your theft, Borgschulze, that sucks. For anyone who thinks
their account info may be compromised, time to close that account as
soon as possible and then set up a new one separately. Or switch
companies, but it's not usually the company's fault.

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johnfoss said:

Do you know how your account info got compromised? Ever log on to Paypal
from an email or anything similar? Probably not, but somehow somebody
got your account info.

No, I am very secure with my information.

I never log into anything from an E-Mail unless it's a registration
link from a forum. I know a phishing E-Mail when I see one.

When this happened I hadn't logged into Paypal for over two weeks.

Either way, it pisses me off just thinking about it, I want to go
brutally murder the ignorant pieces of [censored] at Paypal that won't give
me back my money they lost.

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Both Paypal and eBay always address you with your real name in official
emails from them, which they say is one of the baseline ways of
determining if the email is a scam or not. Like John said, if there's
any doubt, I just look at where the link actually takes you. In my
email client, that shows up in a message bar at the bottom of my
window.

For a while, I tried to annoy the phishers by entering [censored] information
into their linked forms (firstname: Doyouthinkimabigenoughdumbass
Lastname: Tofallforyourstupidploy), hoping that they'd waste some of
their time trying to use my fake info. But who knows if it did any
good.

Oh, and Firefox is the best browser available, imho.

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