Pay Pal Scam Alert!

[MotownMadman]

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PayPal SCAM ALERT!!!

If you receive an email with an official PayPal looking form with text like this one:

>From [email protected] Thu Mar 6 01:01:25 2003
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:00:53 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: YOUR EMAIL
Subject: Your PayPal account is Limited.
X-Mailer: Talkmailino under SMAILER IV (C) 2001 Web2000 Company

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Dear PayPal Customer

PayPal is currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and placed on Limited Access status. Protecting the security of your PayPal account is our primary concern, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

To restore your account to its regular status, you must confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:" (it goes on to ask for account, bank and credit card details).


DO NOT FILL IT IN AND RETURN IT!!!!!! IT IS A SCAM!!!!! You have been warned!

No, I did not fall for it, but I do not want others more trusting than I to be taken in by this.

Too bad we have people in the world like this, get a job!
Motown /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Jeff H]

You know, I may have received that email. I remember something recently from Paypal and I read it and said "whatever". Basically, if I get an email that isn't a response to something I asked, I pretty much ignore it or delete it. There are way too many gullible people out there and the internet has made it so much easier to scam them. Thanks for the update Motown. I'll have to go home and see if I still have the email.

[Rat_Pack]

MM & Jeff, I received an email like that about a month ago and ignored it. I have been meaning to send it onto PayPal and let them know. Here is what it looked like:

<font color="blue">Dear PayPal Customer


This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

Please confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

Email Address:
Password:


Bank Account


Enter Bank Account #:


OR Credit Card


Enter Credit Card #:





This notification expires January 31, 2003


Thanks for using PayPal!


This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com/.

Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. </font>

There is a similar scam going but using Ebay account information....................RatPack............ ..

[MotownMadman]

Rat Pack, It looks like the one you recieved was a promotion through Providian Bank to gain access to your information for purposes of sending you a credit card. The one I had posted has origins overseas and appears to be an attempt to gain bank and credit information for purposes of ripping you off. Pay Pal wont send anything to your mailbox which requires any personal information such as passwords or account info, never give that up unless you are actually logging in to Pay Pal's home page. If you notice Pay Pal never asks for any account info after signing up, just your password to gain access to your account. I am sure Pay Pal did not authorize Providian Bank to use their name as a means of marketing their credit cards, I would report it to Pay Pal. My sister works for Ebay, I have her on top of this scam attempt.
Thanks,
Motown /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

[Yellow 69 z28]

Sounds like they (bad guys) are at it again. Since eBay recently set up shop with PayPal it looks like someone may have stolen a email list. We (good guys) have uncovered this in the past:

Past scams:

PayPal Look-a-like (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2080344,00.html)

From Russia with love (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2080344,00.html)

FBI Busts Scammers (http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/7656.html)

Recent scams;

Ebay / PayPal Scam (http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/1470291)
PayPal Fake Site Scam (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106412,00.asp)
PayPal Verification (http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,74687,00.html)

Be very cautious about any email received stating that the online company that you have an account with lost your login &amp; password or account info. Any company that loses your records and sends you an email asking for your input in my opinion should not be in the business.

Just be Careful.

[JoeC]

Some people get their kicks from screwing up your computer. There is a scam going around that looks like a virus but it is not. Do not follow the so called anti virus directions that you may get from a friendly email. It is not a virus. It is a trick to make you screw up your own computer.
This is a hoax that tries to persuade you to delete a legitimate Windows file from your computer. Jdbgmgr.exe is the file to which the hoax refers, and it is the Microsoft Debugger Registrar for Java. The Jdbgmgr.exe file may be installed when you install Windows. Recent versions of this hoax take advantage of the recent outbreak of the W32.bugbear@mm worm and that the Jdbgmgr.exe file mentioned in the hoax has a bear icon. The actual W32.bugbear@mm worm file is an .exe file and does not have a bear icon. The Windows Jdbgmgr.exe file has a teddy bear icon in the hoax.

[supercarmodeler]

I got one about 6 months ago that was asking my Ebay info what Tipped me off was them asking for my CC# even my credit line in addition to my ebay log in info.
people need to be carefull with everything now days.

Tim