Thread: A New Phishing Expedition Hit My Inbox This Morning

Got up and fed the cat, made coffee and lit a pipe. Logged on to find an email purporting to be from paypal. My account is suspended and just click this link to update my info and get it back in active status.

Long time since I got one of those. So I forwarded it to spoof at paypal and I'll let them deal with it. The first time I got one of those I darn near fell for it. I went to the link and started typing my info in but a little voice said hold on.

I xed out and went directly to the paypal site and my account was fine. So I came close to giving some scammer all of my personal info. Be careful out there guys.

I get those at least once a week.Also get the same from an ebay looking site.

I haven't had one for a while, and when I did get one, I didn't have a paypal account. I knew that one was a scam. Thanks for the heads up.

I don't trust anything anymore. Lots of spam from fake UPS and FedEx sites about some packkage I'm expecting. Problem is, I usually am with my various AD's, so always a temptation to click. DON'T DO IT!

What they are hoping for is you open it one day while your mind is elsewhere and you comply without thinking.

Yep, another one that's going around, supposedly from paypal, is "We've received a request for a password change from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. If this was not you, please log in here to verify your login details." I received two of those last week and, like you, forwarded the first one to spoof@paypal.com.


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I clicked on one of those links once & ended up having to reformat my HD. Affected a HD sector.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I clicked on one of those links once & ended up having to reformat my HD. Affected a HD sector.

While I condemn those rip off artists who are trying to rob people via the internet, I understand it is a for profit motive. I cannot fathom the mindset of someone who does that sort of malicious mischief for some perverse satisfaction.

Like someone who would 'key' a car door or stick a knife into the sidewall of a stranger's tire. Especially doing it in cyberspace where there is no way to even know who or how many are affected by it.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

While I condemn those rip off artists who are trying to rob people via the internet, I understand it is a for profit motive. I cannot fathom the mindset of someone who does that sort of malicious mischief for some perverse satisfaction.

Like someone who would 'key' a car door or stick a knife into the sidewall of a stranger's tire. Especially doing it in cyberspace where there is no way to even know who or how many are affected by it.

Jimmy, a guy who comes in to your life via your computer & wipes out your bank account, is worse to me than the guy who climbs in your window & robs your house while your out. At least I have a small hope of catching the guy in my house. A computer thief is a coward who rarely gets caught.

Long ago when receiving these kind of emails I called Paypal's fraud squad and asked if there was a way to determine authenticity. I was told that if it's an authentic email from them that it will always start with my full name as it appears in my account profile. Any else like "Dear Member" or "Paypal Member" etc ... is fake. So far this stands correct.