Alirght folks...this is how it goes... Your Billing Information! Dear PayPal Member, It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information. Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records within 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems. You must click the link below and enter your login information on the following page to confirm your Billing Information records. Click here to activate your account You can also confirm your Billing Information by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/. Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page. To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here. The link takes us to static-52-166.worldinternetworkcorporation.com/webscr/login_secure/ which is a fake login...do not login to this... Thnx
Forward the email to , they'll take it down. Its quite interesting to see the page is only built up from about a dozen images.
To be frank... a couple of years back some yoyo hacked into my site and put in their fake ebay page with images and used my smtp to mail all their clients... Fortunately, I got hold of the guys email id where the details were being forwarded from the php script, and mailed him to stop such stupid stuff.
It gets a bit pointless to start a new thread on every damn phishing email received by anyone. Crap...I get ebay, paypal, xxx banks, credit card companies, etc etc phishing email every day without stop. I could start a new thread for each one and poof! This forum would be overrun in useless threads. Just either delete or forward to spoof@xxxx Seriously, on useless threads, it is because no one uses the search function here to find the same information on other threads.
How shall we count the ways they get email addresses . . . 1 - submissions to sites owned by people who sell email addresses 2 - accidental postings of your email address in public spaces 3 - you or someone you know got infected with a trojan 4 - domain(s) registration information 5 - someone is mailing a list of common user names and accounts at your domain(s) 6 - someone is mailing a list of normal account name permutations at a yahoo or gmail or hotmail 7 - someone joined a forum to harvest email address from member profiles How well these things work? Well enough. There is a subset of people who are always submitting information to these sites. These are the same ones who respond to telemarketers, stock-gambling-lottery phone scames, Nigerian scams, phoney door to door charities, phoney web chartities and charitible causes. But, there are a lot of people who really are fooled by the email messages. There are many defenses. One of the most effective, up front, is to only view email as text. This will not catch them all, but it reveals enough extra information that it might make you suspicious.
Same! One after the other... except they don't send it my paypal ID Maybe this thread would be useful to a newbie .. I sure did not know about spoof emails till a fell for one
Heh this remembered me a person hacking xxx's of paypal accounts.. They are scammers... (Sorry for the word) I hate people cheating and stealing people's money..
There are so many emails like this. There really isn't any point posting each one you get on DP. Just forward it to Paypal, delete it and forget it.
I'm getting really sick of these emails myself. I wonder how much money they are making by scamming people with this.. I hope people aren't really falling for it, but I am sure there are plenty that are..