How many of these do you get? I've only received a couple Chase bank ones. I opened up a Paypal account last week and used it a few times and today I received 2 perfectly looking Ebay spoof emails. After some digging online I know their fakes. Hmmmmmmm. My brother said that since many people use the same Paypal password as their Ebay password, that phishers try and get you that way. How could they have gotten my email??? People that do this crap should be shot into space and left for dead as far as I'm concerned.
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I'm an earthlink customer and I used to get fake earthlink emails (effort to get my password) maybe once a month, now maybe once every six months. I reported (forwarded emails with headers) all incidents to earthlink.
I'm also an ebay and PayPal user and get maybe every 3-4 months one fake ebay or PayPal email.
Mostly I get hit with variants of the Nigerian scam. That happens basically every couple days. My email program allows me to bounce emails, and that's what I do.
By the way, I get no scam emails and attempts at defrauding me at all in my gmail account. I suppose the STASI/BND/KGB/MOSSAD/MI-6/NSA/CIS/FBI/DARPA/USPS/FDA/ADA/FAA/USDA/FEMA and BestBuy are keeping a close eye on gmail.
PS: Whenever you send an email, anybody with the proper know-how can intercept your email address and the email content.
I'm also an ebay and PayPal user and get maybe every 3-4 months one fake ebay or PayPal email.
Mostly I get hit with variants of the Nigerian scam. That happens basically every couple days. My email program allows me to bounce emails, and that's what I do.
By the way, I get no scam emails and attempts at defrauding me at all in my gmail account. I suppose the STASI/BND/KGB/MOSSAD/MI-6/NSA/CIS/FBI/DARPA/USPS/FDA/ADA/FAA/USDA/FEMA and BestBuy are keeping a close eye on gmail.
PS: Whenever you send an email, anybody with the proper know-how can intercept your email address and the email content.
None. Nor do I get spam ... at least at home.
I filled one of these out just for grins. Once the first page was submitted it kept going to more and more obviously phishy pages. Finally after telling them pretty much all "my" info it said I was done and bounced me to the real paypal page.
I made sure my email address wasn't part of the link I opened (which was generic.) They have my dynamic IP... so what.
I filled in all sorts of crazy but real sounding names and numbers. I'd love to see them try to open a credit card for Jamie Farr Jomama, 69 Butkis Lane, beverly hills 90210.
I made sure my email address wasn't part of the link I opened (which was generic.) They have my dynamic IP... so what.
I filled in all sorts of crazy but real sounding names and numbers. I'd love to see them try to open a credit card for Jamie Farr Jomama, 69 Butkis Lane, beverly hills 90210.
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You may want to use proxy servers and even squids to anonymize yourself thoroughly.
Now with GFI installed on our server, never. It took a little time to "learn" but now is about 99% effective at removing all legit SPAM. I used to get phishing emails a few times a month.
I have to give credit to Hotmail too, as I get very little spam there any more. Once they put a stop to Phishing, I'm sure it will immedietly be replaced by something worse.
I have to give credit to Hotmail too, as I get very little spam there any more. Once they put a stop to Phishing, I'm sure it will immedietly be replaced by something worse.
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I haven't gotten a Paypal scam in a while. The first one ..I backed out of the IP and found that it was part of another total scam in China for some Methodist mission in China.
At least Paypal sends you rhetoric that they attempt to shut down the offending server that is doing the phishing. Ebay (yes, I know that they bought PayPal) appears to treat it just like they do everything else as far as "violations". Lots of rhetoric ..but little substance ...except that they don't even appear to bother with the rhetoric in this case. Very casual attitude.
At least Paypal sends you rhetoric that they attempt to shut down the offending server that is doing the phishing. Ebay (yes, I know that they bought PayPal) appears to treat it just like they do everything else as far as "violations". Lots of rhetoric ..but little substance ...except that they don't even appear to bother with the rhetoric in this case. Very casual attitude.
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I get the usual as others posted.
The one that was most alluring (and dangerous) was the one recently that something to do with filing your taxes on-line.
The one that was most alluring (and dangerous) was the one recently that something to do with filing your taxes on-line.
I had a Paypal one that looked IDENTICAL to Paypal's emails.
My wife asked "did you buy this $298.00 cell phone?" I thought someone hacked my bank account as I did not buy anything. Thankfully they did not.
The fake email is constructed with a JPG files. Very clever. Paypal's real emails are text-based so you can copy & paste the data easily. However, right clicking the link in the evil mail to verify the purchase redirects to some false site (not payals's site)...obviously phishing.
Thunderbird caught this as it's set to disallow graphics from showing up in emails.
Tricky. Very Tricky.
Interesting to note is that this email came in the week before mother's day, when a lot of guys are purchasing things for their wife. As a result, she keeps things hush-hush for the sake of the 'surprise' but then asks the obvious question once she opened her gifts and did NOT see the "paypal" purchase in front of her: "did you get me a cell phone for Mother's day"?
Clever, Very clever.
Rat Bass Turds!
My wife asked "did you buy this $298.00 cell phone?" I thought someone hacked my bank account as I did not buy anything. Thankfully they did not.
The fake email is constructed with a JPG files. Very clever. Paypal's real emails are text-based so you can copy & paste the data easily. However, right clicking the link in the evil mail to verify the purchase redirects to some false site (not payals's site)...obviously phishing.
Thunderbird caught this as it's set to disallow graphics from showing up in emails.
Tricky. Very Tricky.
Interesting to note is that this email came in the week before mother's day, when a lot of guys are purchasing things for their wife. As a result, she keeps things hush-hush for the sake of the 'surprise' but then asks the obvious question once she opened her gifts and did NOT see the "paypal" purchase in front of her: "did you get me a cell phone for Mother's day"?
Clever, Very clever.
Rat Bass Turds!
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