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pay pal??

Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 28th, '06, 13:56



anybody else got a security update from paypal.

According the new changes in Service Agreement any unverified account will be deleted from the system in 72 hours after receiving this letter.

sounds suspect to me.

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Postby Flash » Jun 28th, '06, 14:00

Totally suspect mate, report the offending email to Paypal, do NOT click on the link.

My dad and sister have both had emails like this as have I, difference is they responded. They were asked for their password for identity verification, when they entered it showed an error message.

After reporting it they discovered the scam, I think my sister lost money due to it, my dad just had the hassle of changing his password.. :roll:

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Re: pay pal??

Postby saxmad » Jun 28th, '06, 14:39

magicdiscoman wrote:anybody else got a security update from paypal.

According the new changes in Service Agreement any unverified account will be deleted from the system in 72 hours after receiving this letter.

sounds suspect to me.


I get these all the time.
Ignore it.
It's a scam.

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 28th, '06, 14:46

thought so the link dosn't work anyway.

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Postby Charles Calthrop » Jun 28th, '06, 14:48

Do the links point to genuine PayPal website addresses (you can tell just by rolling the mouse over them)? If not then it's a scam so don't even click on them.

If this is the first one of these you've had then you're lucky. My inbox is usually rotten with them. But don't just bin it; report it to PayPal. Both PayPal and eBay have reporting mechanisms for this type of thing. It's worth it just for the feeling that you might, in some small way, be helping to get back at the vermin that send these things out.

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Re: pay pal??

Postby Mandrake » Jun 28th, '06, 15:15

magicdiscoman wrote:anybody else got a security update from paypal.
Yes, I get them regularly and have reported them to Paypal. They've acknowledged the message but I've not heard anything further.

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Postby magicdiscoman » Jun 28th, '06, 15:29

big company small tolereance for complaints.

Return-Path: <PayPal@onlinesecure.com>
i do check if I'm not sure and generaly ditch them anyway.

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Postby Yorkshire Pudding » Jun 28th, '06, 15:37

Genuine Paypal emails are always addressed to you personally (eg. 'Dear Fred Bloggs'). If it's addressed to you personally, still treat it with caution but If it just says 'Dear Customer' or 'Dear User' or something like that... bin it.

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Postby down2infinity » Jun 28th, '06, 15:42

ok its simple, never ever ever follow a link from an email stating its from paypal. type in the real address for the site instead - if its a genuine email they'd be something on the site about it aswell, when you log in you'd get diverted to another screen or something to take care of it. even fake paypal sites can have realistic adresses so rolling the mouse over the link before clicking on it may not always help - TYPE IT IN YOUR SELF.

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Postby Delude » Jun 28th, '06, 18:14

I had a scam email from someone trying to be eBay. It looked so real! Aparntly they said i owed a large sum of money and would be taken to court, i had to verify my email and password first otherwise they couyldn't take any action.

What the hell is the pint i nthat? Even if it was real, would you send ya email and password so they could take you to court?

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Postby Stephen Ward » Jun 28th, '06, 18:17

Scam, i get these everyday.

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Postby down2infinity » Jun 29th, '06, 13:58

just one thing to quickly add to this, if you get the new version of internet explorer ( version 7 beta ) you get whats called a phishing filter. This filter checks websites you visit for you to make sure they are genuine. problem solved :)

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Postby Mandrake » Jun 29th, '06, 14:49

2 samples received since 1pm today - fell free to take advantage of either or both offers but don't blame me if you end up seriously broke!
REFERENCE NUMBER: SW/90/0021/7896/56
Ticket Nr: 458796
WEBMAIL
SUPERBALL PROMO.
FORWARD YOUR DETAILS!!
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to
you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the Second Category
draws of THE
MICRO/STAAT PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 29th of June, 2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to Ticket Nr: 458796, with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of US$550,000,00 (Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.
This is from the total prize money from 2,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this
Category CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank, in your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

You are advised to contact the agents by email.
Failure to do so may
warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers.
Remember to quote these
numbers in your correspondence
with your claims agent.

REFERENCE
NUMBER: SW/90/0021/7896/56
BATCH NUMBER: 34/0065/KJY
SERIAL NUMBER:5772-54
LUCKY NUMBERS:3-4-17-28-35-44

To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***************************************************************************
Mr.Paul Smith

AMERSFOORT, THE
NETHERLANDS.
Reply Email:
(Deleted in case anyone is really tempted!)
****************************************************************************
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.SANDRA BLAZE
THE
PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

TT:MR VINCENT SOGLO
FINANCIAL BANK-BENIN
Rue Cdt Decœur Cotonou,
République Du Bénin.
Telex: 5280 FIBANK


Dear Sir,

In order to transfer out (USD 9.5 Millions )Nine million five hundred thausand United States Dollars) from FINANCIAL BANK-BENIN.I have the courage to ask for your assistance to handle this important and confidential business believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am M.VINCENT SOGLO,FROM FINANCIAL BANK-BENIN. The account mamanger of Mr Donald PEPPER who died in car accident during in the year of 2001 in the Pepublic of Benin,Engineer Donald PEPPER is Australian and a prosperous trader of gold and oil,he opend account on our bank since 2000 which he use to trade and to develope his companies in Africa before his untimely death in 2001 and since then nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently the fund will go into the pockets of the civils servant corrompus of the State. And since then no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD 9.5 M)nine million five hundred thausand United States Dollars). I want to transfer the [USD 9.5M]nine million five hundred thausand United States Dollars into a safe foreigners account in abroad , but I don't know any foreigner.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account is Mr Donald PEPPER , is a foreigner too. I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don' t know our selves before, but be sure that it is real and a genuine business. I only got your contact address from my secretary who operates computer with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business.
You are the only person that I have contacted in this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I would like to sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund will be safe.

I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments. I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with foreign account and foreign beneficiary. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later immediately, if you are able and with capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will never come again in my life. I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make mistake I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in the office I will be giving you information on what to do until the money is transferd to your foreign reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. and I want to remained you that your share has been circulated at 40% of the total sum. I,m waiting for your urgent mail so that I will give you more information about this transaction.
Sincerely yours.

Mr Vincent Soglo


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Postby Renato » Jun 29th, '06, 16:28

Ha ha this reminds me of the time that Danny Wallace, in his book Yes Man, took such an email up on it's offer and flew halfway around the world to Holland or somewhere in order to try and claim the money :lol:.

Needless to say, it was all a scam...but a damn good read nonetheless :D.

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Postby AJ82 » Jun 29th, '06, 22:30

Can't say I have had one but I will keep my eyes open.

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