BuffaloHELP
Aug 24 2005, 01:42 AM
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 can educate. Post in original as you can. Sorry that my gif conversion cause some color information loss. What I received in my inbox  When I click on the link, it almost fooled me but thank god the site was taken down 
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sxyloverboy
Aug 24 2005, 01:59 AM
yeah i hate those good thing gmail filters them out quite well. another hint at it being a hoax would be looking at the domain. which can also be cloak but this one wasnt. they uses multiple subdomains to achieve a www.paypal.com infront of the ecgi2.us. just though id point it out.
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nerdy monkey
Aug 24 2005, 03:32 AM
yes gmail is good about getting rid of most of them but thanks for the screenshot. it does look like something paypal might send out.
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Nue1
Aug 24 2005, 07:30 AM
Well, I sometimes get a mail like that too and I also have a account on paypal and so I click on the link and the browser came up with the same result are yours too. Oh well, I have a gmail account but did not use it  Is it can block the letter or mail like that?
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hulunes
Aug 24 2005, 07:41 AM
yeah,luckly gmail can filter them out automaticly.i do dislike that kind of message...hope more and more E-mail system can deal with this shortcoming and againt any kind of dangerous message.
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wariorpk
Aug 24 2005, 11:08 AM
Yes Gmail does take those types of e-mails quite seriously because you can report them seperate from their annoying cousins that we call spam. I am really glad you told us about this and I am really glad that the site was down. I don't know why people do stuff like this its just not right.
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RemoteConnection
Aug 24 2005, 07:55 PM
oh ... seems scary... but i thing it's a old method for hacking others info.
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inyourarms
Dec 6 2005, 08:56 PM
Oh I hate those stupid fake paypal emails. I get a lot of them and I'm never sure whether or not they're believable.
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zaqy
Dec 22 2005, 06:51 AM
I Always turn off HTML for my email setting. so i always be carefull about from whom i get email. I use Yahoo and Gmail as my default email . in yahoo i always got email like that . Just pointing your mouse to the link then right click and copy link address and you will find a fake website. the best way is just protect your email ( and check about bulk mail or spam email) if you're not sure what you do. leave that email alone
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MarCrush
Dec 25 2005, 10:40 PM
If the link doesn't go to PayPal.com just don't fill in your information. Any ways PayPal doesn't even does this (not saying that I used it before).
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CrazyRob
Apr 14 2006, 12:39 PM
PayPal never send out email like that and always check in the browser that the url has a https:// if not close the browser that cathes out loads of people so make sure there is a https://
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MAME_NUT
Apr 13 2006, 03:46 AM
QUOTE(Dooga @ Apr 12 2006, 08:31 PM) 
Paypal will NEVER address you as "Paypal user" or "Paypal Member" or your email address. They will always call you by your name.
Actually Dooga, they somehow have found out my name and put it in one of my fake verification pages someone sent me. But I guess that isn't to hard to spoof some of these things being as your e-mail address is your Paypal ID. Hmmmm.. How convienent. Is it possible to find out much about me with just my e-mail address? I would like to know. 
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Dooga
Apr 13 2006, 12:31 AM
Never click a link in a PayPal email. Never. Not even if it's ACTUALLY from paypal. If you get an email telling you to verify your email, copy and paste the URL that they want you to use and paste it manually into your browser. (It should NOT be something like "Click here to verify" it should be something like " https://www.paypal.com/foo/bar/verify"). Although Paypal does use text like "Click here to blah blah", they would usually provide an alternate URL, so copy and paste that one instead. Normally, just copy and paste the verification code and enter it in the page by manually going to paypal's site and finding that page. After you copy and paste ANYTHING and use it already, be sure to clear your clipboard, or copy something else that's useless. Do not EVER enter ANY information in a window without an address bar. The address bar should work, you should be able to access different sites with it, and you should be able to right click on it. (Once I saw a very well duplicated address bar with working buttons too! However you couldn't right click...) ALWAYS open a new window and type "https://www.paypal.com/" (with the s in HTTPS!) and fulfill the instructions in your email manually. Be sure that the first slash "/" is directly after "paypal.com". Paypal will NEVER address you as "Paypal user" or "Paypal Member" or your email address. They will always call you by your name. If you suspect a site that is fake, enter some fake information in the login box (like "1ksja" for the username and "ak99jka" for the password) and see if you can log in. If for some reason you do log in, that site is fake. I recieve so many of these emails it's not even funny... I don't even use Ebay or Chase! lol
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BordaForx
Apr 12 2006, 10:32 PM
I know, it's scary, they're getting more...real, the websites. I have learned somethings to stay away from. Sometimes, the scammers make their site look exactly the same, but check the URL, is it the same? If it's not, then it's probably a scam. Also, check for holes in the messages, as in, does it make any sense? Have you ever done these things? If a website states that they will never ask you for your password, and someone caliming to be the website asks for your password, it's, by reason, fake.
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TripleH13
Apr 12 2006, 09:12 PM
I have gotten like three of these. At first i was like what this becuase first of all i don't even have a paypal account so i knew that it must have been a scam of some sort. But everyone should be very careful becuase if you do have an account it seems so real that you might actually think it is paypal.
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