Pay Pal thieves - be forewarned

[Senkosam]

Last night I got the same kind of scam e-mail that I did from e-bay 4 mos. ago. A link to an official looking Pay Pal site, asked me to verify my Pay Pal account by providing all information, including credit card number and password.

I've sent the information to Pay Pal's security dept. Hopefully they can get the feds to catch these clowns. You might want to warn your customers.

If you have any doubt about whether an email message is from PayPal, please forward it immediately to spoof@paypal.com. For eBay spoofed emails, please forward those to spoof@ebay.com. Please do not respond to it or click on any of the links in the email message. Please do not change the subject line or edit the email in any way.

If you have already entered sensitive information as mentioned above,

you should take immediate action to protect your identity and online

accounts. If you only clicked on a link inside of a spoofed email, you

may also want to run a security scan on your computer.

Sam

[BigZ]

I get this crap in my email about 2x a week from somewhere or another. Anything that asks you to "verify your account" or "update your credit card" is 99% most likely a swindle. I did have to update a card for paypal, because it had expired. It's a good idea to have a seperate account just for online transactions as well.

In an official email from paypal/ebay you will be addressed by your name as it appears on the statement and also they will never ask for any information that is personal, critical or confidential. If you do have to verify something you will be required to sign in to their official website and in the lower right corner of your browser there will be a padlock type icon that will display the security certificate and verification of the authenticity of the web site.

It's amazing to me (I do tech support consulting), just how naive some people are about what they click on when they are on the web. I am so twitchy about emails that I will look at the full path and origin headers in my mailer before I will do anything instructed within an email.