Got a message from Pay Pal

[Silver Moon]

A few weeks back Kriskrafts got hit by a similar scam claiming to be EBay (the screen looked very official). Something about the message smelled fishy, so we contacted EBay separately about it and they said it wasn't them and not to respond.

 

[DiFier]

Ebay and Paypal are the ones to watch out for but there others. they will never ask you for information. also if you get a message from "paypal" and your not sure don't use any of the links they provide in the message. if you think that paypal needed to get your attention you can goto paypal and then log in the proper way. Someone can make a website that looks like ebay or paypal and then they have you enter your info and noe they have it and your scr wed

another suggestion, is to go into your windows explorer options (under the view menu) and make sure that hide file extentions for known file types is turned off. (no check) people can disguise exe files as other things by calling them virus.jpg.exe If that box is checked it would look loke virus.jpg. and you might open it.

 

[MerakSpielman]

My account at Ebay was suspended because my account information "might" have been hacked by nefarious third parties unknown. Ebay wanted a fax of my driver's liscence to prove that I was the person who opened the account (I could black out my SSN if I wanted), since the hacker could have replaced my email address with their own in the account information. Rather than go through that much trouble, I just signed up a new Ebay account. But it does go to show that Ebay accounts are probably hacked all the time, and you have to be careful.

 

[Zappo]

No good e-business company will ask you account passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information via email. If they really needed a confirmation of some kind, the email would tell you to log in on the website and follow the instructions there.

As for the .exe, when you receive any executable which you didn't explicitly ask for, you can safely assume it is a virus without even bothering to check. Antivirus programs aren't 100% effective anyway.

 

[Ysgarran]

There are other scams with regards to e-bay that attempt to steal your password. Never open an .exe or anything with 'active' content for that matter.

Even when something appears to be coming from a friend, it is a good chance that it is actually a virus instead of something your friend is sending you.

Ysgarran.

Just as an aside, you never, ever have to 'renew' anything in PayPal. They don't have any of your actual info on file (except the passwords and such I'd bet).

 

[annadobritt]

I received that email too, but Earthlink Spamblocker caught it, so it never made it to my computer.