[HQRP] Re: [RMG] OT - Pay Pal Hoax -- Critical Warning!

[George Gingell]

Gee Guys, I hope that these have been forwarded to the Authorities.

The sooner these people are caught the better.

It sounds like a trend?

It wasn'tong ago that they busted a couple of rascals in NYC for Stealing
Identity information from credit card records.

Thanks for the reminder to keep up our vigil on these type of things.

It seems like I spend half of my time just hitting the delete key these
days. Even with SpamAssassan, I often get more spam than valid email.

I do notice that certain of the groups that I participate with are the
worst offenders.

Guess it is just some of what we have to live with in order to
communicate.

SPAMers and Telephone Marketeers are the bane of todays world...



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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 K5OE@aol.com wrote:

> Ron,
> I received a similar scam about three weeks ago, except it was a unbelievably good spoof of ebay.com.  The email said someone had hacked my account and gave me a link to go to in order to fix it.  The link looked just like an official ebay page, headers, graphics, spoofed address and all.  When I saw what info they wanted, purportedly to "verify" my account info, I knew it was a scam.  They wanted not only my name, email, password, and SS number, but also my mother's maiden name, bank info, etc.  Incredible!  I can't imagine anyone falling for this scam, but I'll bet somewhere there is some unsuspecting person who has had their complete identity stolen by this scam.
> 73,
> Jerry, K5OE
>
>
> > I recently received a SCAM from unknown persons that you should watch
> > out for, especially if you are a PayPal user.
> >
> > The attached message was in HTML format and looked just like a PayPal
> > web page.  Being the suspicious type, I immediately logged into PayPal
> > and found no such limitation.  Then as I checked the header info I found
> > that it came to an e-mail address that I do not even have linked to my
> > PayPal account.  The rest of the header was spoofed nicely so that it
> > looked like a real PayPal message.
> >
> > I reported it to PayPal and did some other searches and found this has
> > happened to others.
> >
> > Once again my policy of not giving out data on ANYTHING where I am not
> > the originator has apparently saved the day.
> >
> > Pass this on as widely as you can.
> >
> > Be careful out there!
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: info@paypal.com [mailto:info@paypal.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:38 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: Your PayPal account is Limited.
> >
> > PAYPAL LOGO
> > Dear PayPal Customer
> > PayPal is currently performing regular maintenance of our security
> > measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance,
> > and placed on Limited Access status. Protecting the security of your
> > PayPal account is our primary concern, and we apologize for any
> > inconvenience this may cause.
> > To restore your account to its regular status, you must confirm your
> > email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:
> > Top of Form
> > Email Address:  Password:   Bank Account  Enter Bank Account #:   Credit
> > Card  Enter Credit Card #:  Exp. date : 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
> > 12 / 03 04 05 06 07   Bottom of Form
> >
> > This notification expires March 31, 2003
> > Thanks for using PayPal!   This PayPal notification was sent to your
> > mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical
> > newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify
> > your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to
> > https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to
> > your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings.
> > Replies to this email will not be processed.
> >
> > If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings
> > and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made
> > to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to
> > receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to
> > http://removeme.providian.com/.
> >
> > CopyrightC 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated
> > trademarks
> > and brands are the property of their respective owners.
> >
> > --------- End of Original Message --------------------
> >
> >
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