Thread: Another Phishing Scam

I got an email this morning supposedly from PayPal. Since it went to my junk folder I was suspicious. It wanted me to verify my identify. It said there had been some unusual activity on my account. I logged in to my PayPal account and everything looked OK. I called PayPal just to be sure and they verified my account was ok and this was a fraudulent email.

Here's this kicker. The email looks exactly like one from PayPal. It has your name on it and even has their phone number to call. But if you hover over the from address it will not say PayPal. It says "service @231asccw, etc." and give a bunch of letters and numbers. PayPal's address is [email protected] DO NOT click on this email to go the PayPal.

I have seen this scam also. I also get those DHL, UPS etc emails saying I have a package.
The latest one is that I have a court appearance in New York City. I have never been there and I doubt the court system sends out such things.

Rule of thumb..........

Never open anything from anyone you don't know!

Originally Posted by yngldy

I know what you mean. I have been "evicted" 3 times now!!! And I own my home.

LOL I bet you were shocked! haha

I haven't got this one yet. But I have been getting one every 4 days or so that's supposedly from the USPS. Doesn't even spell out United States Post Office. The email says they have tried to leave a package for me and couldn't. All I had to do was click on the button in the email and confirm my address. I hovered over the address too, the first two were from the UK and the second two were from Australia. Now I know the post office is running their budget in the red, but I don't think they would outsource their delivery problems to the UK and Australia! I just deleted them. But it gave me a good laugh.

Scams and phishing abound. I accidentally answered the phone the other day without looking at caller ID and some far away fellow was telling me there was something wrong with my windows PC. I said "interesting because I have a MAC". Click!!!

School is out; let the scam emails begin with a vengence!
I don't even *have* a paypal account and I get these emails.

I like the ones that tell you have bought something you haven't making you think someone is using your account but they want you to click their link to check your account instead of open a new browser, they can be so sneaky

Quite a few years ago I had done several balance transfers from Credit cards at 0%, no fee, and put the money in the bank. This was back when banks were paying about 5% interest. After a while I would get phone calls saying, "looks like you have a lot of credit card debt - we can help you lower your interest rate." I would say, "Oh? how much lower than 0% can you go?"

click.

Be careful. I had the same thing happen. Being in the IT department I knew better than to open the links. I contacted PayPal and they confirmed that it was a scam. About a month later I got an automated call from PayPal saying there was a suspicious charge for my account for 150. I confirmed that I didn't make it and they said they'd investigate (well the automated call said they'd investigate). I got off the phone and went up to PayPal and there was 5, 150 charges to Sony. I disputed them right away and changed my password right then. I tried to email them to see if anything was being done and was told to log onto my account to check. Every time I tried to log on it wanted me to confirm my credit card numbers, which I wasn't going to do. First thing Mon morning I called my bank and cancelled my account because if any charges go thru they'll pay them and then charge me 30 each. This would have put me out a total over 1000 for charges to the bank and PayPal. Then pay pal sent me an email saying they couldn't process the charges because my account had been closed and they could see where I disputed the charges but couldn't stop them from going to bank. Bull, I know better than that. It took a week for them to agree that I didn't make the charges but I will never go back to them because of the way they handled the whole thing and not letting me have access to my acct info unless I verified my cards. That would have been so stupid on my part since they already had part of my account numbers there was no way I would have kept them. Now, I got my FB account hacked into from someone in Argentina, they immediately locked down my account until I confirmed it was or wasn't me and then also said if I used the same password and log on for other accounts on line I should change them. Yes, I used the same log on info for PayPal. Now all of my accounts have new passwords. I never click on a link that supposedly goes to an account, I'm smarter than that but that doesn't always save you.

I have had that same junk pay pal email before. I didn't fall for it either.