Possible Email Yahoo Scam. My friend received this email. Just want to make everyone aware of it.
Email Fraud
2009 Yahoo! Financial Promotions(You Have Been Awarded £1,000,000.00)
From: Yahoo! (gisele.Chouri@noos.Fr)
Sent: 03 August 2009 04:05:19
To:
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGERINTERNATIONAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.REF:YAHOO7/315116127/27BATCH:15/623/UK. CONGRATULATIONS! Dear Esteemed Winner, This is to formally inform you that the Yahoo! Corporation have awarded you... read more.
I have recently recived a Email from "PayPal", and is clearly visibel that its not them, Dont get Folled by fake Emails, One of the Emails I Recived is:
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Dear valued PayPal® Member
It has come to our attention that your
PayPal®account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could
please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records
you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
You must click the link below and enter your password on the following page to Update
your informations.
Click here to Update your account
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before:
Buy from an online auction Pay on a merchant website Send money to anyone with an email address Protect Your Account Info
Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.
To safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the PayPal URL (https://www.paypal.com/us/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal site.
PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal employees.
When I recived the message GMail said:
Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. Learn more.
This Information Cant Be True, I dont Even have a Paypal Account, So yeah dont get tricked!!
Has anything like this happened to yoy?
Notice from Johnny:
Fixed your quote. You just had the end tag's / backwards.
check the email header and send a copy to paypal so they're aware of the fraud. I've been getting tons of these for like everything right. I got one that said it was from msn, yahoo, paypal even my bank and other banks. Had a not so bright friend who actually used the link that's in the email and signed into his account and surprise surprise he lost it right after that. Whoever it was that sent the email got his info and changed his password so he wasn't able to log back in. Of course we all thought it was funny. round
These email fraudsters have been getting increasingly sophisticated. I've had 2 HTML emails recently from banks which had all the right logos & graphics and came from what looks like an authentic email address (e.g. info@nameofthebank.com). The only thing is, I don't have accounts with those banks so knew straight away something was up. But if I was with one of those banks, there'd be no way of telling it was a fake. So best practice seems to be to view ALL emails relating to finances, banks etc with suspicion until you can prove otherwise.
you know i would send them bogus info with lots of swear words and spam the crap out of them.
I got one of them emails about some guy who's got loads of money but it's all tied up and he needs your help to get the funds out of the country (he claimed he was Fillipino instead of Nigerian for a change) and asked for contact details to discuss the deal, so I sent him the phone number of the Australian Federal Police's on-line fraud deparment.
Paypal Scam? I don't have Paypal, but still, those fraud people should get a life. It's a pretty obvious scam, and still (sadly) some people still fall for them.
--- I remember the Nigerian Scam email (I hear about people falling for it). I got one. And I replied (LOL) I said, I won't accept anything. They replied ignoring my message and told me to dial a number and they were keen to have me fall for it, too bad. Didn't they read my email? I said I won't have it happen. I'm starting to think those where computer generated mails.
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(he claimed he was Fillipino instead of Nigerian for a change)
Really? I live in the Philippines, so that got me so upset. I wonder how it'll feel to recieve an email about a guy wanting to transfer money from the Philippines, and you LIVE in the Philippines. Anyway Tyssen, I really want to see that email. I hope you didn't delete it! I could report that to the local police, although I highly doubt they'll take much action. It's not FBI quality . But that was interesting.
I got an e-mail similar to this like someone hacked my account but I DON'T got an account at PayPal. I also check the addresses, did not match. Also notice the layout was slightly different (you have to compare the two pages). It was the first fraud e-mail I found out about. We all know PayPal will not ask you to re-active your account (or something like that).
Possible Email Yahoo Scam. My friend received this email. Just want to make everyone aware of it.
Email Fraud
2009 Yahoo! Financial Promotions(You Have Been Awarded £1,000,000.00)
From: Yahoo! (gisele.Chouri@noos.Fr)
Sent: 03 August 2009 04:05:19
To:
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGERINTERNATIONAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.REF:YAHOO7/315116127/27BATCH:15/623/UK. CONGRATULATIONS! Dear Esteemed Winner, This is to formally inform you that the Yahoo! Corporation have awarded you the sum of £1,000,000.00 Great Britain Pounds in its 2009 Yahoo! Financial Promotions which was officially organised by Yahoo! to thank Numerous Users and Non-Users of Yahoo! Mail for the financial benefits the Yahoo! Corporation have received as a result of their Patronage and immense contribution to it's financial success over the years. Do please note that this lottery is the first of its kind to be organised by Yahoo! Corporation and this is also the company’s major milestone to embrace online services. This Promotions Programme has been officially approved and licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). Beneficiaries are to Please note that this Promotional Programmes which has been medially tagged "Thanks For contributing To Our Financial Success" was sponsored and organized by the Yahoo! Corporation in view of the Financial benefits Yahoo! have received from its numerous customers either through adverts, hosting and personal emails. Consequently, your One Million United Kingdom Pounds (£1,000,000.00) would be released to you by the claims office here in UK. Our claims director will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him or her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is fully processed and your prize remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To file for your claims, do immediately contact our Director for Claims (SIR.FREEMAN WALLACE) who provide you with more detailed information and assistance in this regard. Note that the applications form should be filled and submitted to the claims office for immediate confirmation of winnings. Contact:Sir.Freeman WallaceRemittance Director Yahoo! Financial Promotions,United KingdomNo.44, Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL,UNITED KINGDOMEmail: sirfreemanwallace1@live.Co.Uksirfreemanwallaceh@swisone.ComTel: +447031920807 The application form should be properly filled and sent to your assigned cliams director via his E-mail address provided above.======================================APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM(Your E-mail Singup Profile)======================================FULL NAMES...CONTACT ADDRESS...COUNTRY...SEX:...AGE...MARITAL STATUS...OCCUPATION...NATION ALITY...TELEPHONE NUMBER. ...HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE(Proof Of Identity):BATCH NUMBER. ...REFERENCE NUMBER...HAVE YOU AN ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL ADDRESS: Once Again Thanks For Contributing To Our Financial Success! Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform your claims admin immediately. Congratulations from all members of staff, and Thanks For contributing To Our Financial Success. Your Sincerely,Mrs.Gisele R. Chouri.Notification OfficerYahoo! Financial Promotions.
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GMail has actually done a lot of things to prevent phishing examples like these. What they do is they look at the "from" header and if it doesn't say example@paypal.Com... It's obviously not from PayPal and GMail won't except it, it won't even show up in your spam folder. Also from those messages that are real GMail puts a little key next to there name letting you know that it is in fact a legitamate email.
Yeah this should be mentioned more on the news and everywhere around the internet, because many poeple just give away their important info and someone than steals their money!
NEVER, i repeat NEVER SHOULD YOU SEND ANYTHING IMPORTANT with email....not a single company wishes you to send your personal info or something accross the net with email...
Unfortuneately, it's a fact of life that we have to deal with this things. I get alot of penis enlargement spam coming into my email. Most of it is taken care of by my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird), but there's some i still need to get rid of manually.
Hey i was checking out my span section and found this EMail in it, as i was saying, I dont have a Pay Pal account...it is kinda funny. Four Different EMail but yet the same "FRAUD".
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Information Regarding Your account: Dear PayPal Member!
Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!
Someone with ip address 140.201.76.1 tried to access your personal account!
Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked.
Click here to activate your account
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at http://www.paypal.com/. Click on the "Confirm email" link in the Activate Account box and then enter this confirmation number: 1091-8871-4911-9803-3995
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
I just want to send an email,but I want the recipient only read that email one time,then it is
automaticlly deleted.How could I do that? Any want can help me .thanks.....
i have friend and he ask me today why after he opened free yahoo email account with .com extension,
dont have a pop3 server to send and receive e-mails? I have account with .es and can configure a
free pop3 server.....
I was wondering if any of you guys knew of any good pop email clients. I recently signed up for a
pop client, but I was wondering what the best client was. People say Outlook is full of bugs and
freezes constantly. I am told that open source is the way to go. I'm not familiar with any open
source pop clients. If anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. I am running
Windows XP. QUOTE Thanks, magical1492 No "sign - offs, please add it to your sig block
via the profile manager. Thanks ....
I was happily browsing the web so I decided to check my Yahoo! email. I got like 4 emails that were
bounced back by Mail-Daemon. Apparently, I had tried to send this spam mail to some MSN groups!? It
was bounced back to me because I had to be a member of that group to send emails. (Whew!)
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shocked and ran all the scans I could think of (Adware/Anti-virus) and deleted this Cydoor adware.
I'm not sure that was what caused it, and I'm starting to freak out, because my Yahoo....
Dear last night a very strange and very disgusting thing happend to me . It so happened that last
night i tried to SIGN-IN my hotmail id using messenger , bet every time when i tried to sign-in I
recieve a message off INVALID password . I just tried to sign-in in my Inbox but this time i
recieved a error page that your account is temperarly unavaiable. I tried much but in vain . I just
think that there may be some problem in my internet .I tried to sign-in with my other ID this time
with other ID i was sucessfull . then i just tried with the previous id but i was conti....
/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" /> Today, I opened up
an account in Gmail, and I finally get the immense 2 gig space. Then I open up my email and bam!!!
An email to me from the Bank of America. The weird thing is that I don't use Bank of America.
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retraced the email adress and it said (unknown). Any comments please host.....
i was just on shoutbox and saint michael said someone sent him an email with virus and fbi in it so
im just letting yall kno beware of it but here is the email that is being sent QUOTE
http://www.astahost.com/just-got-email-fbi-t9312.html the email address is Admin@fbi.gov (phoney)
Dear Sir/Madam, we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites. Important: Please
answer our questions! The list of questions are attached. Yours faithfully, Steven Allison ***
Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI- *** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220 ***....
Currnetly there are several jokers out there who try to send fake emails pretending to be from eBay
itself. Such emails may be used to steel personal as well as financial data is the user recieving
the mail clicks on the links. After contacting the ebay Support via email I've got following
tips: I am posting the mail I got from eBay as it is so that the users of Trap17 can also detact an
fake email and maintain their privacy. From: eBay Customer Support To: Cyber Mitra Hello,
Thank you for writing to eBay regarding the email you received. Emails such as ....
I have seen posts about what kind of messages are out there fooling members to give up private
information--especially when PayPal sent you one. Oh no! No way, PayPal address cannot be faked.
Wrong. I almost gave away my entire personal information about 3 years ago. And the fake messages
are getting better and better. Even the site that links to looks too real. So I decided to share
this with you, in hopes that no one from TRAP17 are suckered into giving up what is private
information. PS I know everyone knows this but let's spread the word and see how many more we....
Many people don't care about email account security and just go for a Hotmail account because
it's automatically MSN compatible or a Gmail account because it has lots of space. But out of
those of you who choose your email based on safetey and security, which client do you recommend?
There are tons out there. Personally, I use GMX.net, it's a German service with extremely high
security. They have a password meter to check your password for how easy or hard it might be to
guess, encouraging you to use upper and lower case letters along with numbers. They veri....
QUOTE A new scam by hackers has some people believing they are receiving an e-mail about a
critical update to Windows when in actuality they are installing a Trojan horse, Sophos said on
Friday. The e-mail directs victims to a fake version of the Windows Update site, where there are
links to download the malicious "patches." "The email uses the Microsoft branding and style so to
the casual observer it appears to be legitimate," Gregg Mastoras, Senior Security Analyst at Sophos,
told BetaNews. If users download the "patches," they are actually installing the Troj/DS....
. But that was interesting.
