Paypal Scam

[Ausfree]

I have received an e-mail supposedly from Paypal saying my account has been reviewed and is now limited. They then ask for credit card details passwords etc, so they could update my account (yeah right).:o

When the email started with "Dear valued customer" alarm bells started to ring and when they wanted credit card details I knew it was a scam so I have reported it to Paypal (the real one) who are investigating it.

Anybody else here get an e-mail like this??

[Roverlord off road spares]

Hi yes we get it saying that we bought something, and is this correct. Different shipping details etc. We are get email from ANZ saying that we did a transaction was this correct, please log on to confirm detail.
We do not bank ANZ, it comes up as some just type it up not ANZ colours.
Boy they are getting hard up these scamers. Heather;)

[PhilipA]

OMG a Paypal scam virgin!!!!
I didn't think there were any left in the World.
I get 10- 20 a day junk emails. Dunno why.
Regards Philip A

[cafe latte]

I have received an e-mail supposedly from Paypal saying my account has been reviewed and is now limited. They then ask for credit card details passwords etc, so they could update my account (yeah right).:o

When the email started with "Dear valued customer" alarm bells started to ring and when they wanted credit card details I knew it was a scam so I have reported it to Paypal (the real one) who are investigating it.

Anybody else here get an e-mail like this??

I had exactly the same email a couple of weeks ago. It was worryingly well done, some will fall for it, I just reported it as spam.
Chris

[Tombie]

They happen all the time.

Never click an email link to go to a site like these.

If in doubt, log in via your browser and direct address...

[vnx205]

I have received an e-mail supposedly from Paypal saying my account has been reviewed and is now limited.
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Anybody else here get an e-mail like this??

Yes, I got the same one a couple of times this month.

I just deleted it.

[Mick_Marsh]

I got an email from paypal wanting to confirm my credit card account. I didn't reply.
They did say if I didn't, paypal would stop working for me. I received a reminder. Deleted it.
Paypal stopped working. It turns out it was genuine. Got in touch with paypal, spoke to a person who told me it was genuine.
Easily solved.


If you get an email from paypal, report it. 99.99% of the time it will be a scam. 0.01% of the time it just may be paypal.

[Bushie]

Probably from the Nigerian arm of PayPal

Martyn

[bsperka]

I got an email from paypal wanting to confirm my credit card account. I didn't reply.
They did say if I didn't, paypal would stop working for me. I received a reminder. Deleted it.
Paypal stopped working. It turns out it was genuine. Got in touch with paypal, spoke to a person who told me it was genuine.
Easily solved.


If you get an email from paypal, report it. 99.99% of the time it will be a scam. 0.01% of the time it just may be paypal.

Most email scams have the format of asking you to confirm something or telling you something and then a link. For more info click here http://www.aulro.com. :)

[DiscoMick]

You could forward the email to Paypal (don't open it) and ask them if it's a scam. That helps them to stop them.

[Mick_Marsh]

A PayPal scam just landed in my email account.
It came from a hotmail account. I wouldn't think PayPal uses hotmail.
It clearly wants me to click on the dispute link which is what you should never do.

[Ean Austral]

I forward them to Paypal whenever I get them, haven't heard a thing from paypal and still get them about once a month.


Cheers Ean

[Mick_Marsh]

I got an automated email from PayPay thanking me for reporting.
Really, the scam has nothing to do with PayPal. The scammers are just using their name.

[Bytemrk]

I've had dozens of them and got the same automated response ...

Definitely doesn't hurt of forward them through to Paypal - gives them a little more to help track these mongrels down..

[Ean Austral]

Between paypal, the banks and all the other scam emails the scammers must just spend all their time in front of the computer.


Cheers Ean

[Bytemrk]

Ean, that's one reason some try and hack into other people's servers.... much more powerful than your desktop and capable of sending LOTS of emails...

Last compromised server I found had sent over 400,000 emails in the previous 24 hours... its a numbers game... they send that many out.. some sucker is bound to click a link...:angel:

[jonesfam]

We have been getting a lot of Australian Post scam Emails at work.
Something about You have failed to pick up a parcel, click here or we will send it back.

Pity they don't know that the local Post Office doesn't work that way, we are far more informal.

I just delete the Emails, get them once or twice a week.
Jonesfam

[BMKal]

I get the Paypal one occasionally, asking me to confirm my account details etc. Have also had them saying that my Paypal account is "restricted" and threats to close the account.

I delete them all - I have never had a Paypal account and never intend to. I have only ever once come across a business that I intended to deal with who accepted payment ONLY by Paypal - I simply took my business elsewhere. ;)

[DiscoMick]

We have been getting a lot of Australian Post scam Emails at work.
Something about You have failed to pick up a parcel, click here or we will send it back.

Pity they don't know that the local Post Office doesn't work that way, we are far more informal.

I just delete the Emails, get them once or twice a week.
Jonesfam

The tricky thing is the Post Office does send out emails, but you don't reply to them - you go to pick up the item in person.

[101RRS]

We have been getting a lot of Australian Post scam Emails at work.
Something about You have failed to pick up a parcel, click here or we will send it back.

Pity they don't know that the local Post Office doesn't work that way, we are far more informal.

I just delete the Emails, get them once or twice a week.
Jonesfam

Just be aware that these are bad news because if you click on the link your computer gets frozen and you have to pay money to get it unlocked. Happened to a friend and it also froze the bios so that the computer was basically useless - even if a new hard drive is installed a backup information loaded. My friend had to buy a new computer.

[Tombie]

Just be aware that these are bad news because if you click on the link your computer gets frozen and you have to pay money to get it unlocked. Happened to a friend and it also froze the bios so that the computer was basically useless - even if a new hard drive is installed a backup information loaded. My friend had to buy a new computer.



I believe recent BIOS have had the vulnerability removed...

All he needed was a new MB....

Arrium gets hundreds of these emails a week - and guaranteed some Nitwit will click it and off the Crypto goes...

Never does much damage - it's always halted and a backup overwritten.

[101RRS]

All he needed was a new MB....

A bit hard on a laptop.

[Mick_Marsh]

Wouldn't you just be able to reflash the bios? I did that wit a mates laptop once. Worked well. It was just corrupt. Didn't have malaware or ransomware on it.

[superquag]

Ah, Spring is in the air, and scams are multiplying..

Today I was honoured with a communication from the 'North bank and trust Co', with a curiously non-American "accent"... (anyone else think it might be Indian? Or Nigerian... )

Also, note the use/omission of capitals in the bank's name...

"Dear Beneficiary,

This is notification message is from the North Dallas bank and trust Co ,Your name is enlisted among the beneficiary whose fund is approved for payment, by the Board the Governors Federal Reserve Bank , and we have been waiting for you to contact us for you to claim your funds of $56 Million dollar, but to our surprise one Mrs. Brenda Miller came forward for the fund, that, you asked her to claim the fund on your behalf with documentary evidence which we are not sure of it source,This was why we decided to contact you to confirm to us if you really sent Mrs Brenda Miller.

Most importantly, confirm to us urgently if you gave permission to Mrs Brenda Miller to claim the fund on your behalf and if case you did not authorize anybody, then, You will have to stop communicating with the impersonators and the organizations, because they are trying to divert your fund to themselves. She tries, so hard to changing the fund ownership of her name.

We await your prompt response, so that you can open an account with us to enable your fund be credited to your account and the ATM attach to your account would be sent to you.

Yours Faithfully.

Mrs Pamela Jennings"

With $USD 56,000,000 at stake, I feel it incumbent upon me to right the wrong being perpetrated by Mrs Miller.... - for purely moral reasons, you understand... :angel:

[101RRS]

Wouldn't you just be able to reflash the bios? I did that wit a mates laptop once. Worked well. It was just corrupt. Didn't have malaware or ransomware on it.

I have no idea - the experts said that everything on the computer was encrypted including the bios and would could not even get into the bios at all to reload.

[Homestar]

I have never had a Paypal account and never intend to. I have only ever once come across a business that I intended to deal with who accepted payment ONLY by Paypal - I simply took my business elsewhere. ;)

PayPal is my preferred payment method and it works very well. I both like to pay - and get paid - via PayPal. No credit card details to hand over, etc. I've had too many credit cards hacked - you always get your money back when that happens, but it's a PITA to sort out.

Never had an issue since I have been using PayPal - for about 4 or 5 years now.

[1950landy]

I get these all the time . I just send them off to spoof@paypal.com usually get an answer from them very quickly.:cool:

[DiscoMick]

Paypal is good. Once set up it makes buying stuff easy and safe.