Fake PayPal Warning!

[MovieStuff]

Hi, Shatzy!

Long time no, si?

I've received many fake PayPal emails that attempt to get you to log in with your pass word, etc. but I've always spotted them right off. However, today I got one that was very sneaky: It says, "You have a complaint!" and then instructs you to click a link to a page that looks just like a real PayPal page and all the links on this "fake" page connect to REAL PayPal pages. It will even take you to your real PayPal account page after you log in!

Obviously, I take my reputation very serious so the potential for a complaint really caught me off guard and I fell for the scam. Fortunately, I realize within minutes what happened and immediately changed my password in my profile so no damage was done.

If you receive an email like this, do not log in. If you already have fallen for it, then do not hesitate: Change your password right away in your "profiles" section. If the entity that scammed my password had been given enough time, they could have then changed it to a password that only THEY knew and I would have been powerless to do anything about it and they could then withdraw funds from my PayPal account without anything to stop them.

Anyway, take note and don't fall for the scam!

Roger

[SHATOUSHKA]

sometimes you really scare the shit out of me!!!


i saw this posted on the super 8 board (the one
you posted) and i contacted a few others that i
thought could use the information.

the first level of scamming was bad... but this
new type is somewhat covert and discrete and
highly ass-chapping.

i DO appreciate you spreading the word, roger!

i hope you didn't learn the hard way about
these types of scams. i would hate that.

but i will continue to pass this along.
thankeys!!!

[TastinGood]

got a link to the fake page?

[SHATOUSHKA]

yeah!!!!

i wanna see the info... maybe scam the asshole myself

[TastinGood]

scam the scammer?

if ya cant beat 'em, join 'em

[SHATOUSHKA]

not that kinda scam.

when i received my first ebay scam... i found
the 'homebase' for the operation... which was
housed on AOL. i contacted AOL and every frikken
email link possible for AOL.

i didn't stop there............... [img]redface.gif[/img]

but enough about me....

[MovieStuff]

Okay, this is the link they sent me to:

http://www.geocities.com/login_paypal/login.html

Now, normally I look to see if the URL is the normal "https" with the "s" being secure but this time I was really caught off guard by the content. If you go to this page you will notice that even though the URL isn't a real PayPal site, all the links on the page ARE real PayPal links. That's what fooled me.

Sorry to scare you Shatz... [img]graemlins/devil.gif[/img]

[SHATOUSHKA]

i sent your original paypal post (from the S8 board)
to a few other boards on hb. just a heads up.