Oh boy, if you think Paypal and Ebay scams are bad, you should try selling puppies on line! I am constantly bombarded with offers to send me a check that is more than the purchase price and they want me to forward the balance to them via Western Union.

I really don't see how they could ever do any good with those, they are so obviously scams, they answer internet ads but rarely take the time to make a decent looking email, it will read something like "I would like to buy your (puppy) please email me asking price and current condition" they don't even bother to take the parenthisese out of their copy/paste form letter, they could send this to anyone selling anything, a car, boat, horse, whatever, if they had sense enough to change the word, but most of the time they don't bother. It seems to me that if you are going to try to be a con artist, you would have to be smarter than the people you are trying to con, and believe me, these people don't have a clue!

The flip side to this con is the one where they are trying to sell you something. Always be leary of anyone offering a puppy for a riduculously low cost. English Bulldogs and Yorkshire terriers are the most common breeds used in these scams. This is due to the normally high cost of either of these breeds, and the popularity. The con artist offers the purchaser a pup for very low fee, usually $200-300 and they are playing on the nature of cheapskates who have always wanted one of the affor mentioned breeds but couldn't afford the normal sticker price. Bulldogs generally sell for well over $1,000, to $2,000 and most quality yorkies are $1,000 or even more. (in some cases, the larger type Yorkies will sell for much less, but certainly not $300)

So always exercise caution when buying/selling online. Just use a little common sense, and remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

I have received emails from Paypal asking for my information when I do not even have Paypal. I normally just ignore these or delete them. I have never heard of the emails for spoofing but most of the time the emails are listed all over on sites telling of emails and sites so as long as people check those out most of the time you will be safe. Checking who the sender is also works because most of the time there is a small difference in the domain.

Indeed, I have also been getting similar emails.

I have also gotten emails from eBay, asking me to purchase an item that "I have previously bidded on" which, was obviously not true.
Most of these "offers" seem to be cell phones.
Of course, Beware.

I usually never open websites through email, for these kind of security reasons. It is getting harder to identify these spoof emails, every time they send a new one they keep on getting better and better and people keep on falling for their traps. Thats why when I receive one of these emails I go to the webpage on my own instead of using the links in the email.

i am also receiving a lot of spam/scam emails regarding my paypal account..
but luckily google mail knows how to put them on the spam folder..
i you use mozilla firefox 3, you can see a green button showing extended validation if you go to paypal.com.. that way you can determined of you are spoofed or not..
be safe!

yah i received the same email when i first saw what it i thought what the heck and i thought tha some idiot used my email address to creat a paypal account so i just left it in my spam bin and it's been there for a long while i guess i should just delete it now.

... or have each member have a paypal inbox where thy can get all their emails. As for conltacting us they can just use some kind of ntification to tell you taht you have email n your paypal inbox. These notifications will come to ur regular email account

I don't quite understand how you guys get all these scam emails. I read through the replies and a lot of you seem to be getting them. Maybe it's due to things you sign up to or something? I use gmail and I put my email out publicly all the time. I get spam from one company, and that's because I signed up for it. Other than that everything goes straight to junk mail...

Maybe you guys should consider a new email client to keep you from having to deal with that stuff, .

OMG! i got one of those emails a while ago! and was about to fill in my imformation when i told myself.. hey self the message was sent to your spam folder, and to an email adress where you dont have a paypal account?.. there must be a reason why? haha and then i looked at the adress, and was like ZOMG! omgad spam.. lol, since im a huge myspace person, i know that people try to use fake log in pages to get your log in info and hack you


yay for me and checking the dumb url