PAYPAL SCAM! How to not get scammed!!

[*CCCP*]

Got an E-mail from "paypal" today telling me I was in trouble. Apparently my account had been accessed from three different IPs in russia, the UK, and the US. this is when my oh shit button went off. Of course, I began to follow steps shown in the E-mail..... Well, here's what everything looked like.

Photo one, heres how it started. You could see how I would be nervous, no?
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3279/paypal2sy6.jpg


And if that wasn't convincing enough.....
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5853/paypal1ux6.jpg

That was all in the same E-mail. I click the "log in to your account" thing and right then is where I see that it's all bullshit...

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5083/paypal3gv8.jpg

Things like this are easy to avoid. Know what you are looking for.

If you suspect you've been scammed, take these steps.


Manually enter www.paypal.com in your browser.
Make sure you see the padlock showing the site is secure.
Change your password ASAP, and do not store it on your computer. Keep it in a notebook or sticky note somewhere.
Forward the email to " Spoof@paypal.com"
Report what happened to paypal, again, the more on record, the better.
Check all transactions
If you put your password into the phishing site you should call paypal support and tell them to lock your account up, and explain the situation.


You can avoid these by knowing what to look for, and using your head.



- Riley

[anonymouse187]

That happened to someone I knew, they had to reset their credit card and paypal account AND ebay account.

[7175 & 455.]

That's a good spoof besides the word "unpleasent" at the end. I don't think IP addresses would be released for you because it doesn't matter here. It's easy to uncover for the experienced user, but they're not targeting poor/broke CS majors. I bet a lot of people have bought this though.

[Mr. Hasselhoff]

yeh this has been going around a lot lately.

[*CCCP*]

Right, hindsight is 20/20, looking back I would never do that, but they make you think you're in trouble, they made me think all my money was gone allready!

i felt like puking, honestly. It's not even my credit card. I just took a second, and realized that the e-mail was the scam.

If you know what you're looking for, you cannot be scammed. it's about not trusting anything on the internet, its just not worth it.

I wonder how much I could've lost, what could've happend etc.... scary.

[.:EoL:.]

intresting, cool thnx

[TACO_HATER]

thats why i don't trust pay pal credit cards i trust my cash with 1 person me

[Haze]

Good job avoiding that, same thing almost happened to my bro. He did a WHOIS lookup on the site listed and found it different than PayPal's - which is what gave it away for him.

[incRo]

thanks for the heads-up :)

[Smotang]

I find that any email I recieve to the email adress for my paypal account is spam.