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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-03-19 02:15
I just got an e-mail from Paypal which "notified me of suspicious activity".
Here's the e-mail
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PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
We are contacting you to inform you that on Mar. 31, 2005 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.
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ok, who can tell me what is wrong with this picture?
What the scam does is to also refer to the real paypal address so that you can go log into your account. The e-mail also has a link that you can follow, but "just to make sure that it's the """real""" Paypal, you can type in the address yourself.
Here's the catch and scam - when you open the email (if unprotected and viewing the images which I don't as I use SR 2 of Microsoft Explorer and the images don't appear as they are blocked) there is a program which runs that redirects your entry. So you are thinking that you are actually entering paypal when you have actually been redirected to the scam site and are giving them your info at that point.
beware
O, did you catch the error yet in the posting?
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Mark, since this thread is CLOSED I would again tell the viewer that even going directly to the website is a part of the scam too. That's the high tech part - typing http://www.paypal.com yourself in your own browser wouldn't take you there as if you didn't block the images first and they loaded the malicious code, you could type in a URL all day and you wouldn't get there. THAT is the high tech part and it isn't in the news much. It's a new spin on an old scam.
Post Edited (2005-03-19 02:41)
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-03-19 02:19
The error is that the date is after today. It's your typical scam, nothing to see here.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Tom A
Date: 2005-03-19 02:21
I see it, but just so I don't spoil it for others, let's say it's something to do with the Fourth Dimension. I admit that I didn't catch that mistake when I received the same email.
I simply heed PayPal warnings to remember what the headers and sender names will be on their real emails.
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Author: Iplayclarinet
Date: 2005-03-19 02:22
march 31... they could have at least made an effort and made it believable, gee wizz. but thanks for the heads up
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-03-19 02:27
Interesting, D B, TKS, none too skillful tho, my calendar says that Mar, 31 is not quite here, also they "regularly screen the Paypal system", Not OUR !system. Have I missed something?? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2005-03-19 02:34
Dear boys & girls ...
The very occasional postings on scams might be OK, but we've had two in a very short period of time. News about these "phishing" attempts are in the nightly news programs often enough already. As they say - don't click on the URL given ever - go directly to the Web site yourself.
Let's please keep this closer to the clarinet - if I posted every variation of scam mail I receive I would be posting between 4 and 5 of these a day, and they'd get tedious REAL fast.
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