posted on November 15, 2002 04:33:08 PM new
:@ :@ **RED ALERT* :@ :@ PHONY PAYPAL EMAIL..never respond to an email
link from any email from any site asking for your info...just got this from PAYPAL-EBAY.COM **NOT** not the PAYPAL site..it is a scammer..
1st of all log in had no https:// (secure server)
2nd there is no paypal-ebay.com
3.paypal & all sites say they will NEVER ASK FOR YOUR INFO IN AN EMAIL
4. I CLICKed FULL HEADERS ON THE EMAIL IT IS ACTUALLY FROM CASINO-FUN ....BE CAREFUL..
Dear,
PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly
screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed
your account, and we need more information to help us provide
you with secure service. Until we can collect this information,
your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We
apologize for the inconvenience, and we would like to restore
your access as soon as possible.
For more information about the status of your account and for
instructions on how to restore full use of your account,
please log in using the link below:
http://www.paypal-ebay.com
We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as
possible. Should access to your account remain limited for an
extended period of time, it may result in further limitations
on the use of your account or may result in eventual account
closure.
posted on November 18, 2002 07:56:25 PM new
I received the same one a few weeks ago and Damon has not gotten back to me on it. Mine did come from the correct paypal e-mail address, but I have not responded to the link. I have not had any trouble logging in through normal channels. Until Damon says to click the link, there is no way I will. In fact, I already deleted the e-mail anyway.
posted on November 19, 2002 06:00:37 PM new
I got one supposedly from ebay here is the header: Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from b4p7s7 (213.122.83.156) by mail.san.yahoo.com (6.5.029)
id 3DD7851C0001B7E1 for [email protected]; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:11:56 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (added by [email protected])
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Urgent eBay Verification
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:13:13
this is the body of message: Dear eBay Member,
Please log into your eBay account using the following link to confirm you are still an active eBay user asap.
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn
We are now requesting the password to the e-mail address you signed up to eBay with. This is so our systems can confirm the confirmation e-mails off eBay stay in your account because there has been a rise in the amount of fraudsters getting access to users e-mail addresses and deleting the eBay confirmations. This is to protect you and ourselves. eBay will use this information for fraud protection only.
Please do not edit any details.
This is our new yearly checkup process to screen any inactive accounts.
Thank you for using eBay!
http://www.ebay.com
I reported this to ebay and got a boiler plate response! they really seem to care!
posted on November 19, 2002 10:40:13 PM new
i am afraid some new people would click on these so i started this thread..
always should say https://www.paypal.com
they start sites like paypal-userebay.com or whatever..
easy to remember they will never ever ask for your info in an email..
if you get one click full headers on your email like i did
the return addess did say ebay-paypal.com but guess what not in the headers there is said casinofun.com
terrible the do this..gotta watch it..
i telephoned paypal they were great thanked me & would get on it..also i got another one said EBAY LOGO PROBLEM..
looked like from paypal..again not in the headers not from paypal
posted on November 19, 2002 10:42:00 PM new
ps i got the latest one at both my paypal email addys just as that is correct only means they got the address somehow not that it is paypal
