Paypal Scam

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Originally Posted by garrycol

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Tombie

All he needed was a new MB....

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A bit hard on a laptop.

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.

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:

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by BMKal

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. ;)

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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.

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

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