Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in
next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to
reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you
have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and
follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in
next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.
loolmiwm
Attachment
www.paypal.com.pif
.pif file

 

Soon to be followed by this:
__________________________________________________
Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.


gdagacwa

____________________________________________________

And has an attachment that does who-knows-what!
Which is also fradulent. Do not do this either.

I called PayPal and was instructed that PayPal will NEVER ask you for personal information, EXCEPT to ask you to log in to your PayPal account and then enter information from within that secure site.

 

The language used in that mail is the biggest tip-off.

"you have to"?

"just run it"?

"you will not be able to use PayPal anymore"?

C'mon.

 

Very old scam. You'll get the same scam from people posing as eBay also.
Rule #1 NEVER, EVER GIVE A PASSWORD TO ANYONE WHO ASKS!
Rule #2 SEE RULE #1.

 

Well what the hell is PayPal going to do about this obvious attempted internet bank fraud, which is a felony? It is very easy to track down what computer and server sent the request. I would demand that PayPal find out who is doing this or we could take our transactions else where.

E-Bay bought PayPal a year or so ago, maybe we could all voice our views through them! Its worth a try anyway.

 

For those among our list who are not PayPal saavy, I entreat you to take a look at the "hate site" if it is still online:

http://paypalsucks.com/

I am not affiliated with it or anything...OK? Also, not sure if all of the stories are true but lots of scary sociopathic behavior is mentioned there. Be safe and suspicious when it comes to your privacy and personal information. Guard it carefully!


TUK

 

A few thoughts on this;

The victims of these scams are more often elderly people who may be alittle out of touch with the electronic age, so if Gram and Gramps have decided to join the info age (like mine) take some time to be sure they are saavy about scams and viruses and such.

These scam artists are working harder to make these things look legit, don't be fooled, paypal and your bank and C.C. companies don't need passwords and PINs, they have access to your account and personal info already; if their asking, it's a scam.

Report any of these to the institution which is being falsely represented, all financial institutions have a place to report suspected fraud linked from their homepage; keeping them in the loop might law enforcement a jump on the perp.

 

I don't know if you remember the old "928 Manual" fraud of a couple of years ago, but PayPal was patently valueless in resolvong the issue. They determined that I was wronged and pulled the $1.58 that was still in the offender's account for me, and told me they considered the issue resolved.

Luckily the PayPal account was backed by VISA, who resolved the issue immediately............. much to PayPal's chagrin, I must add! I think VISA yanked the $300.00 from PayPal's account.

 

heh i signed up with this web site hosting company once, i used my grandfathers credit card because i dont have one. it was like $10 a month so he didnt mine. well after i tried to cancell the service they would never cancell it, because they said they already did and thier was no record of that account even existing. It took about 6 months i think.

 

There was an Ebay email scam like this a few months back. I checked it out and almost fell for it. They asked me for my information passwords, credit cards, etc but it wasn't from a secure site. Any time you give your credit card information on the internet, the address line will start with "https" as opposed to "http" which indicates a "secure site". Another red flag is if you don't initiate the transaction yourself. I notified the Ebay fraud department and that was the end of it for me.

 

It seems the more you use the internet services the more wary you have to be.

 

I think the idiot who put that email together would have had a tough time fooling my 8 week old daughter. The sentence structure is about 2 miles south of Moronic. They really had me at "you cant use Paypal anymore"


............ummm please tell me no-one fell for that.

 

I also have been scammed twice. Once when I bought a Porsche Manual...turned out to be a poor photocopy ...and more recently when I bought a video for the 9284. Someone who claims to know says that it's not original but rather a tape copy with color photocopy stuck in jacket. I emailed the guy with my concern but no response. He sells A LOT OF PORSCHE booklets and videos on Ebay, so beware. The tape works for me but I felt that the resale went down the tube and I paid too high thinking it was something other than what it apparently is. I wouldn't have been so high had I known it was not original.

Harvey

 

I got a similar email for my earthlink ISP account. the URL included a bunch of padding so that it started with www.earthlink.net but actually pointed to a numbered URL.

I wanted to give those folks access to my credit card, but the server didn't respond.

You try and try...

 

Glen,
Send it to me and I'll see that they get it.