Warning

[moony3424]

I received an email yesterday. Don't be tempted to click on "dispute transaction", because it sends you to a fake PayPal website where they ask you for your password, then your financial info. By the way, I just tried clicking on the the website to show you and it's shut down, but here is the the where it sent me:

http://www.campamento.com.mx/catalog/images/cancel.htm

The fake says Dear Paypal member. The real emails that Paypal sends it always says Dear (then your name). It looks so real and the site looks just like that of Paypal's.

Edited January 11, 2006 by moony3424

[marypoppins]

Thanks Moony3424

You have to be real careful, This is important. Hundreds of thousands use PAYPAL.

I have bought items using Paypal, and never had a problem, but i knew it wouldnt

take long for someone to try to copy cat it.

I will keep my eye out for any dodgy emails.

[Jim]

I've been getting 30-40 of these "phishing" emails a *day*.

[shazdancer]

I get a couple of these a day, too. It's real simple. PayPal will never ask you to "click here" in an email. They will ask you to log onto their website, http://www.paypal.com . You should simply go to their website by typing their email address in your browser, and from there you can find out any news they want you to know.

regards,

Shaz

[TheInvisibleDan]

Yeah, I've gotten a lot of those fake "paypals" ones too, along with stuff from all the wealthy folks living in Nigeria desperate to give away their riches (lol).

Danny

Edited January 12, 2006 by TheInvisibleDan

[oldiesman]

I forward all of my fake paypal and ebay emails to:

spoof@paypal.com

spoof@ebay.com

They say they investigate the fake emails when you do that.

[moony3424]

Thank you Oldies. I just did that.

[TED Ferrell]

There sure are a bunch of con's on the net. One that I get a laugh about is getting a request from so and so bank telling me my account is frozen until I update and give more info on my account. A bank I never heard of thus I do not have an account with .What a crock.

Oh for the good old days when we wanted to order something we got out The Sears And Roebuck catalogue made our choice from the pics and desciption .filled out the order blank .bought a money order and a few weeks later got what we ordered through the US Mail. And a year old Sears catalogue was good for other uses mainly the outhouse .Use the glossy paper last.

:blink: :blink:

Edited January 13, 2006 by TED Ferrell

[moony3424]

And a year old Sears catalogue was good for other uses mainly the outhouse .Use the glossy paper last

You ARE talking about wall paper, right? :unsure:

[TED Ferrell]

Sure Moony sometimes wall paper but mostly Cottonelle

[moony3424]

Well, y'all see here in the south we only use Northern tissue. Only good a northerner is good for (and you KNOW where we use that). :P

[TED Ferrell]

Well shut my mouth I'm headin' south Another dam!! yankee

[moony3424]

See darling, it's like this. Just like a somebody coming into this country can become a citizen by marrying a citizen, y'all can become a southerner (sort of) by marrying one. So you see, you are safe (kind of).