Pay-Pal e-mail scam ---- potential credit-card ID theft..............

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John Lewis

If you get an e-mail purportedly from PayPal with text requesting
verification of your credit-card information ---- watch out !

If you wish to check your PayPal credit-card status or make any
changes, log on to Pay-Pal directly via your user-ID and password.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL !!! You have been warned !

John Lewis
 
John Lewis said:
If you get an e-mail purportedly from PayPal with text requesting
verification of your credit-card information ---- watch out !

If you wish to check your PayPal credit-card status or make any
changes, log on to Pay-Pal directly via your user-ID and password.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL !!! You have been warned !
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I got this email and of course ignored it. What's interesting to me is that
people would go to so much trouble to come up with this scam, which does
require some smarts, and then get little things wrong that can tip people
off. For example, and I don't have the email right in front of me, instead
of "PayPal" it actually read "PayPaI". Now PayPal wouldn't ask you to do
this anyway, but if they did, they'd surely know how to spell their own
name!
 
jeffc said:
I got this email and of course ignored it. What's interesting to me is that
people would go to so much trouble to come up with this scam, which does
require some smarts, and then get little things wrong that can tip people
off. For example, and I don't have the email right in front of me, instead
of "PayPal" it actually read "PayPaI". Now PayPal wouldn't ask you to do
this anyway, but if they did, they'd surely know how to spell their own
name!
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Depending on the font you're using PayPal and PayPaI may look very similar.
Try it with a san-serif font; e.g ariel - the lowercase l and capital I
are the same.

/dan
 
jeffc said:
I got this email and of course ignored it. What's interesting to me is that
people would go to so much trouble to come up with this scam, which does
require some smarts, and then get little things wrong that can tip people
off. For example, and I don't have the email right in front of me, instead
of "PayPal" it actually read "PayPaI". Now PayPal wouldn't ask you to do
this anyway, but if they did, they'd surely know how to spell their own
name!
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Funnier yet ...
.. Ebay 'items' available 'only' via PayPal payment ...

Qed.
 
Daniel Ganek said:
Depending on the font you're using PayPal and PayPaI may look very similar.
Try it with a san-serif font; e.g ariel - the lowercase l and capital I
are the same.
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OK, but they are still not the same on the keyboard. In other words, they
hit the I key when they meant the L key. I mean, I can understand if it
were your garden variety urban legend, but this guy is risking going to jail
over stealing money. Think of what else he might have gotten wrong that
could lead to his arrest... Playing for these stakes, I'd just think they'd
be a little more careful if they have the knowledge to do it in the first
place.
 
Please send these to (e-mail address removed).


They closed the sites I sent down in 15mins last time.
 
Graeme Ellis said:
Please send these to (e-mail address removed).


They closed the sites I sent down in 15mins last time.
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Possibly that's why the misspelling of PayPai - it looks similar enough to
fool people, but is not in fact the same name as PayPal. That could prevent
PayPal from taking action against them - or at least make it much more
difficult.

patrickp
 
Here is another one that I just reported to yahoo and FBI that came to me in
an e-mail claiming it needed my immediate attention:

http://www.yahoo-billing.com/

This guys is not to bright as his name is available under the WhoIs search.
 
jeffc said:
OK, but they are still not the same on the keyboard. In other words, they
hit the I key when they meant the L key. I mean, I can understand if it
were your garden variety urban legend, but this guy is risking going to jail
over stealing money. Think of what else he might have gotten wrong that
could lead to his arrest... Playing for these stakes, I'd just think they'd
be a little more careful if they have the knowledge to do it in the first
place.
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Go to jail?? All these scam artist are in Russia or other Eastern European
countries. They won;t be caught for years if ever.

/dan
 
patrickp said:
Possibly that's why the misspelling of PayPai - it looks similar enough to
fool people, but is not in fact the same name as PayPal. That could prevent
PayPal from taking action against them - or at least make it much more
difficult.
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Nope, that's not it. It's spelled correctly in several places, only wrong
in 1 or 2. In fact there's another word they spelled wrong - ended in "L"
and they used "I". Another nasty thing about this scam is that the entire
text is hypertext. In other words, normally you'd expect only the web site
hyperlink to be a link. Let's say you wanted to cut and paste the link.
Any time you click anywhere in the email to position your cursor, it is
automatically accepted as a click and goes directly to the web site.
 
jeffc said:
Nope, that's not it. It's spelled correctly in several places, only wrong
in 1 or 2. In fact there's another word they spelled wrong - ended in "L"
and they used "I". Another nasty thing about this scam is that the entire
text is hypertext. In other words, normally you'd expect only the web site
hyperlink to be a link. Let's say you wanted to cut and paste the link.
Any time you click anywhere in the email to position your cursor, it is
automatically accepted as a click and goes directly to the web site.
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If you want to cut and paste anything out of that site, all you have to do
is select View>Source from your menu bar and just select the text you need.
 
Jerry Polyak said:
If you want to cut and paste anything out of that site, all you have to do
is select View>Source from your menu bar and just select the text you
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need.

First, you wouldn't be cut and pasting from a "site", it would be from the
email itself. And second I know how to do it, I was just pointing out what
cheeseballs those guys were.
 
jeffc said:
need.

First, you wouldn't be cut and pasting from a "site", it would be from the
email itself. And second I know how to do it, I was just pointing out what
cheeseballs those guys were.
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Sorry, missed what you were pointing out. Don't get your panties in a wad.
 
Correct your are they are Scum.

BTW could the mis-spelling be an attempt to avoid spam filters.
 
Jerry Polyak wrote:
....snip...
Sorry, missed what you were pointing out. Don't get your panties in a wad.
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Hey Jerry ...

'Greets' ... :-)

Spoken like a real Boston Mutual Funds Manager ...
nice ... I 'like' that.

:-)
Qed.
 
0_Qed said:
Jerry Polyak wrote:
...snip... you wad.

Hey Jerry ...

'Greets' ... :-)

Spoken like a real Boston Mutual Funds Manager ...
nice ... I 'like' that.

:-)
Qed.
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Thank you for the nice words, kind gentleman.

I think....
 
They almost got me, My CC had to be updated as it had expired, By coinky dink this scam hit at the approximate same time. I noticed
that there was no 'padlock' for encryption. and stopped immediately. Went back and changed my pass just in case
 
Graeme Ellis said:
Correct your are they are Scum.

BTW could the mis-spelling be an attempt to avoid spam filters.
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Yeah - that could be. Although it was spelled correctly in the subject
line, but incorrectly in the email text.
 
Jerry said:
Thank you for the nice words, kind gentleman.
I think....
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Touche' !
ROTFLMFAO!

A 'few' are headed to some, nearby Fed "accomodations" ...
the latest in the parade of SM(stock market) types to "travel".

Qed.
 
Real cute...they also asked for my bank account to verify that I was
the owner of the card and also MY PIN NUMBER...sheeesh, I wonder how
many people got scammed
 
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