Comments on: Sample Paypal Email Scams

By: Sammie Pucci

Sammie Pucci — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:02:19 +0000

I have also received similar types of e-mails. I visited my PayPal account before clicking any links in the fake e-mails (thank god). I did not witness the account activity in my PayPal account as stated in the fake e-mails.

You are so correct with the e-mails looking real. I’m sure that most people who do get these e-mails open them and click on the links in them as they are worried that someone has been using their account.

I have also received fake e-mails from Ebay, asking to update my account information. After writing Ebay, they stated they would never send an e-mail with a link to change your account information.

Thanks for posting this information. Hopefully many will have seen this post before they get an unlucky e-mail sent to them. Keep up the great work!

By: James

James — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:59:19 +0000

Just came upon you article about Paypal Phishing emails. They quite rife at present, I spoke to paypal about these some time ago, and was advised not to open them because sometimes, the have a background program written into them (similar to a trojan horse virus) except this one records keystrokes from your computer. That’s quite scary.

Identity theft is a booming busines these days, leaving many people with thousands of dollars worth of debt.

best advice. notify the Real Paypal asap and most email servers these days have a link where you can just click on it to report phishing and it automatically forwards the email to your Intenternet service provider.

I enjoyed the article. hopefully the word about these scams will travel around the blogs and social networks, and help more people to become aware of them.
I recently published and article to my own blog http://www.im-post.com regarding identity theft through social networking.

regards
James.

By: Clement

Clement — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:56:14 +0000

I like to think that now more people are aware of these types of scams making it bad for some people on the internet. We must all do our share to help clean up the mess that is out there to make it better for all.

By: John Q. Netizen

John Q. Netizen — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:13:06 +0000

Is this PayPal logon page a fake ????

http://login3.paypalglobaldatabase.com/cgi-bin/webscr.php?cmd=_login-run

The link was sent in e-mail

This page:

http://paypalglobaldatabase.com/

Shows:

paypalglobaldatabase.com
This page is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com

By: George Esker

George Esker — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:02:10 +0000

hey guys, I dont know if I fell for that e-mail or not. I opened it like a fool to check it out because I know I never ordered that. The link didnt show in the e-mail I recieved so again, like a fool I typed it in to the web address bar.. It said that the server was not found, did I give him my account information in doing so?

By: Aristotle

Aristotle — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:41:56 +0000

Thanks a lot for the information. I must be lucky that I have not been scammed yet

By: admin

admin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:03:02 +0000

For safety purposes, next time you received any suspicious email from Paypal, instead of opening up the email, you should go to Paypal.com and log in to your account to verify. Never,never open any of these types of emails from paypal.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:26:32 +0000

I also receive similar types of mails previously. In starting I think that someone is using my paypal for this transaction, later on when I confirm with paypal.

I found that it’s a fake email.