There have been many PayPal e-mail scams out there. I got one today that was the most convincing one I've seen. The e-mail is addressed from PayPal. It is a confirmation that you've changed your e-mail address. Of course, it has a link that informs you to click on it if you don't agree with the e-mail change. It then routes you to a new login screen (looks exactly like PayPal but the URL is wrong). It prompts you to enter your user name, password, then goes to the credit card screen for you account information. Of course, you're sending it to a fraudulent site who will, no doubt, steal your credit card information.
I reported it to PayPal immediately. They stated that this specific website was new to them. They said they'd investigate and shut them down.
BEWARE!!!
Another PayPal fraud
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1979 Spider (Owned since 2000)
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I do alot of business through Paypal, and I probably get at least 10 a week of paypal scams.
99% can easly be identified instantly by just putting your pointer over the link they want you to click on and you will see in the lower bar of your brouser that the link has nothing to do with paypal at all, but are nothing more than redirects to overseas IP's....
The best thing to do whenever you get any email from what even ap[pears to be from paypal is to just forward it as inline test to spoof@paypal.com.
The exact same goes for the tons of Ebay scams out there, the last one I got from Ebay was by far the most convincing yet..
I had bid on a new truck, was the high bidder but not reach resurve, hours later I got an Email stating that Ebay Werehouse Services had obtained the truck and the seller had agreed to sell it to me through them (Ebay werehouse services).
They were good, very good, even the links appeared to go to Ebay.
The one thing that gave it away was that you were instructed NOT to contact the seller through normal "ask seller a question" options through Ebay...
Also there was no msg in your Ebay msg box on this...
With only 5 mins of searching on Ebay itself , it showed many people had reported this scam, and in fact Ebay does not even have a werehouse anywhere nor is there and so called werehouse services division....
By forwarding the msg to Spoof@Ebay.com they confirmed this within just mins....
So if it looks to good to be true, it probably is....
If in doubt, send it anyways, they can figure it out, take no chances....
99% can easly be identified instantly by just putting your pointer over the link they want you to click on and you will see in the lower bar of your brouser that the link has nothing to do with paypal at all, but are nothing more than redirects to overseas IP's....
The best thing to do whenever you get any email from what even ap[pears to be from paypal is to just forward it as inline test to spoof@paypal.com.
The exact same goes for the tons of Ebay scams out there, the last one I got from Ebay was by far the most convincing yet..
I had bid on a new truck, was the high bidder but not reach resurve, hours later I got an Email stating that Ebay Werehouse Services had obtained the truck and the seller had agreed to sell it to me through them (Ebay werehouse services).
They were good, very good, even the links appeared to go to Ebay.
The one thing that gave it away was that you were instructed NOT to contact the seller through normal "ask seller a question" options through Ebay...
Also there was no msg in your Ebay msg box on this...
With only 5 mins of searching on Ebay itself , it showed many people had reported this scam, and in fact Ebay does not even have a werehouse anywhere nor is there and so called werehouse services division....
By forwarding the msg to Spoof@Ebay.com they confirmed this within just mins....
So if it looks to good to be true, it probably is....
If in doubt, send it anyways, they can figure it out, take no chances....