Nathan Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Hey guys.....Heads up!!! I received a email from what I thought was paypal regarding my account.It said due to security reasons they were up dating their files.I clicked on the link provided,and it asked for me to update my debt card info.All looked normal(looked like I was in a paypal page)but one of the questions was what was the numbers on the back of my debt card.....That set off a red flag!!..I called paypal and they said this was not their email.Fortunatley,I hadn't entered any info. If you guys got a similiar email,contact paypal before doing anything!!..Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebler_custom_baits Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 ive gotten one from ebay several times too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsac Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 I have those PayPal scam e-mails 3 times now! One thing that is good to know about PayPal is that they will always address you by 'registered' first and last name in all of your e-mails! So if it just makes a reference to your e-mail address, it's not real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 You may want to check this site, especially if you are a seller: http://www.paypalsucks.com It is full of the standard ranting you would expect from "gripe site" but it also has good advice to reduce the risk to you in case your account is "locked" due to suspicion of fraud. The scary part is, if someone uses a stolen credit card to purchase from you, PayPay could "freeze" the credit card tied to your account. Never knew anyone it happened to though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tm Customs Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 I know all about the scams, my ebay account is currently suspended because other people screwed with it. I went to pay my fees and it was over 500.00 told ebay and now it is being inspected. What a bunch of crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tm Customs Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Forgot to tell you guys if we all work together and report all of these scam emails to Spoof@ebay.com eventuall (hopefully) they will stop. Too many people just delete them and ebay never knows about them so PLEASE do everyone a favorand repot all of them, I am currently feeling there wrath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delw Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Ive used ebay and paypal for a long time(litteraly 1000's of transactions), never had any real problems with either. Had one paypal deal done with a stolen CC, I thought it was odd due to the amount of stuff they bought. I called paypal and the put a freeze only on that charge, they found it to be a stolen cc card and returned all the fee;s they normally collect on the transaction. On ebay I I bought a $9000 piece of inspection equipment for my machine shop(for about $5000 cant remember exact price), The customer shipped it out 3 weeks late(no real biggy to me) and it was shipped in a cardboard box thats right cardboard. That would have been so bad except this piece wieghed about 80lbs, needless to say it was trashed when it arrived. The guy I bought it from wouldnt pay for it or send me the insurance ticket. I put in one phone call to ebay and it was settled with-in 4 days. I got reimbursed for everything down to the penny.( he sold lots of stuff and ebay would cancel his account. One other note with paypal. I had a tourny in nevada earlier this year, since I dont like to carry cash I took my paypal cc. we put the room on it and payed for lunch(all in about 1 hour) we went to the cash machine after lunch and the cc was canceled. we called paypal and there reason for cancling it was due to the fact that we lived in AZ and never really used it. they activated it back up upon verification of our info through a phone call. While I was pretty ticked and down right mad about it(at first) I thought it was the best thing that ever happened.(this is whats keeps fraud from happening) One hing I have learned over years and years of playing with pcs is that you never ever click ona link sent to you by email, no mater if you know the company or not. always goto the direct website that you type in and in a payment method case always I mean always make sure its a secured server aka https. You can always make hyperlinks go to a place other than they say via html programming the address. Delw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobShaw Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Ive only used Pay Pal twice and had a problem both times. As it turns out, both transactions were with Del-Mart and Mrs Del-Mart quickly resolved the matter! Ive never had much luck communicating with Delw though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
