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[BuffaloHelp]

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

[sxyloverboy]

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.

[nerdy monkey]

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.

[Nue1]

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?

[hulunes]

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.

[wariorpk]

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.

[RemoteConnection]

oh ... seems scary... but i thing it's a old method for hacking others info.

[inyourarms]

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.

[zaqy]

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

[puffy]

Ohh paypal, dont tell me about that it is really the worst company i have ever seen on the internet.
Becoz they never have back up of our account and also they never provide security.
I used paypal before, one day i saw my credit statement which had billed Rs.30,000 in indian currency without me purchasing anything.
When i complained about them about this there was no response from paypal and i got sucked.
I havent payed those dues still yet. I am suffering a lot my father always remainds me of that incident done by me.
I suggest the members here not use that... Keep it away from you..

Edited by puffy, 11 February 2006 - 10:49 AM.