WARNING SCAM EMAILS

[vertigo]

My friend and I have both just received scam emails from paypal, DO NOT CLICK ON IT, they look offical, it was just the fact that i noticed the email address wasnt right service@ipaypal.com.au instead of service@paypal.com.au (scam has an i in it) it was also sent to my secondary email address (which is my comping one also) rather then my main one, which never happens, it was worded like this:

Information Regarding Your Account:
Dear PayPal Member:

We have noticed several attempts of logins to your account. You are able to log into your account but all your payments are suspended untill you verify your personal information. PayPal works day and night to help keep your identity safe. That's why it has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be verified as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and verify your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

Important Notice : Failure to confirm your full credit card & billing information within 72 hour's will result with your account suspension.

Click Here To Verify Your Account Information



We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
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if you do receive this email, this is what it says to do on the paypal website:

Forward fakes to spoof@paypal.com.au
Together we can help stop fraud.

If you think you’ve received a phishing email:

   1. Forward the email to spoof@paypal.com.au
   2. Delete the email

Be on the safe side
Go to the My Account tab and click History to check your transaction history for inaccuracies.

[AngelElder]

Whenever I receive one of these sort of emails, I go to the site in question via my bookmarks and if there is a problem it will then show up.
any suss emails I receive I either go straight to http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ or simply enter the key words in google....

[austhome]

Real paypal emails always have your first name and surname in the email. They are never addressed Dear Paypal Member.

[chrissie]

Yes and I have received a few today from 'credit unions australia'
or similar. Pity they selected all my email accounts to send them
to, so I immediately knew it was suss.

It is something we should all keep an eye on, thank you austhome
for bumping this topic

[figmo]

Yes and I have received a few today from 'credit unions australia'
or similar. Pity they selected all my email accounts to send them
to, so I immediately knew it was suss.

It is something we should all keep an eye on, thank you austhome
for bumping this topic

ive been getting several of those, and now the "Dear Friend, I want to give you money..da'da'da Nigeria, nak accounts etc."

I get paypal ones every so often, funny thing is though before I started getting them I really DID have to verify my details because of attempted logins etc. But yes the email had my FULL NAME etc in it. and NO LINKS to the website.
Its a real pain too I had to send copies of my drivers licence and stuff to get it working again. But yeah, because I had previously seen a legit paypal 'verification' email I knew how to spot the fake ones lol

[Lovely Country Lady]

To vertigo:
I thank you for your message. I recieved an email which I have copied following.
I checked the address re the "i" pre the supposed paypal name. And yes there was that little i.
Also when I looked real hard, the name was NOT EVEN paypal , but it was PAGPAL (yes, look real hard because the the lower part of the letter g is hidden in the line under the email address name services@ipagpal.co.au;
and if you are in a stressed out state because of possible fraudelent activity of which you have been warned, and the need to act FAST, you might miss the finer details.
Anyway thanks to you vertigo, I checked the address, (yep, there was the i before the pagpal(note pagpal, not even paypal) and realized I had been GOT! The real Paypal has promised to refund the money that was fraudently got. (So I do thank Paypal for that)
The email reads thus:
Information Regarding Your Account:
Dear PayPal Member:

We have noticed several attempts of logins to your account. You are able to log into your account but all your payments are suspended untill you verify your personal information. PayPal works day and night to help keep your identity safe. That's why it has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be verified as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and verify your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

Important Notice : Failure to confirm your full credit card & billing information within 72 hour's will result with your account suspension.

Click Here To Verify Your Account Information
 



We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
 

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Note from me
PLEASE MAY THIS POST HELP OTHERS NOT GET FRAUDENTLY ROBBED WITH SCUM SCAM that looks legitimate.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

[chrissie]

Yes Lovely Country Lady you have to be really carefil with what emails you open
and the sites they may take you too.

There are sadly some very nasty, ratbags out in the cyber world, and in the normal
world, but cyber theft is so frightening and so hidden

All the best and let's hope you manage to win some really wonderful prizes from
the competitions you enter

All the best and a huge welcome to compingforfun