New Spam Fraud threat

[DerianCypher]

Hey all,

Just thought I'd post this real quick. I recently logged into my paypal account for the first time in forever and donated to the mad-irishman cause. Today I got an email saying that some yahoo address had been added to my email. There was a link inside that led to what it said was the paypal service area. Well, once I logged in it asked for my credit info to verify identity. Whoa.. Logged out.. typed in paypal.com.. it looks the same but when I log in no credit request. Kinda scary seeing as I normally am not caught up by these things. The website really looks like the paypal site and the email does say its from paypal. The link is below if u want to check it out.

http://maillist.cnstock.com/webscrr/cmd/primapagina.htm

you've been warned!

 

[Morrus]

I get dozens of these PayPal scam emails, as do most people I know. They're pretty common.

You can tell it's a scam immediately - the URL of the website you posted is not www.paypal.com. If it's not paypal.com then it's not paypal.

These scams record your PayPal login details and then use them to access your PayPal account.

 

[Morrus]

Incidentally, if you did enter your PayPal login details to the above site, then I'd suggest you close your PayPal account immediately. At the very least, change your password.

 

[DerianCypher]

Yeah... as soon as I had realized what I had done I changed my password and I'm seriously considering closing the account.

DC

 

[BOZ]

the crazy thing is, i got one of those e-mails the other day.

i was immediately suspicious because, as far as i can recall... i never even signed up for a paypal account.

 

[Turanil]

This is dangerous indeed. A friend of mine lost 3000$ (you read well) to an ebay scam. Fortunately he had some insurance against Internet scames, so was reimbursed.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I have a Paypal account, I have only used it to purchase my CS account and a couple of things from RPGnow. One day I got an e-mail in my Yahoo accout where someone wrote saying there was a mistake in my Paypal account and they owed me $5000. Sure...I'll just click on over and get my money...

 

[Goblyn]

the crazy thing is, i got one of those e-mails the other day.

i was immediately suspicious because, as far as i can recall... i never even signed up for a paypal account.

This happens to me, too. It only fooled me once though ...

 

[Steve Jung]

I get these all the time. Don't click on links in an e-mail. In Eudora you can hover your cursor over a link and a pop-up shows you what the address really is. Scam e-mail links usually have a raw IP address as their top level address. And read up on how to detect fake e-mails.

 

[wingsandsword]

I had a friend get duped by this new one, exactly like what you described. She realized moments too late what she'd done, so she went to the real PayPal, removed her credit card info, changed her password, and removed all funds from the account within a few minutes. It looks like she got through before.

Personally, I don't believe any email from anybody I don't personally know IRL that ever asks for any personal or financial data (or any passwords that could access that data). If, big if, I think an e-mail might be legit, I'll go to their web site myself (no link, thank you, I'll trust my bookmarks and typing) or preferably call them and ask an actual human being. It's one of those places where a little paranoia is a survival instinct.