Thread: paypal warning!

WARNING!
I just received a "payment sent" email from "paypal" stating that funds had been sent to someone. I opened it and it was a payment of 149.95 for a WIFI hand held PDA. Looked legit, had the paypal header and all.
I was like WTF, since strange things have already been happening to my bank account, so i was already a little paranoid. At the bottom of the email, in bold, "If you have not authorized this this charge, click the link below to cancel payment and get a full refund." With a dispute charge link.
Clicked the link and it asks that you to verify that you are indeed you by entering in your account information. I suddenly thought that i'd better check my paypal history through the actual paypal site to see if i can gather any information on the payment.
Entered the site and found no history on it. Upon further examination of the fake email did not address me, instead it said "Dear Client", Paypal always addresses you by your first and last name. Paypal also does not automatically have a "dispute charge" link set up in BOLD directly in your face so you automatically panic and click it and enter in your information.
ALSO...the email is sent as a gif image so you cannot highlight specific information unlike authentic paypal emails. That is how i can post the acutal email i received...i just found this out just now while trying to figure out how i could post up the email. I've already forwarded this to paypal...PLEASE LET EVERYONE KNOW!!!!! You can copy and paste this in other forums if you want...

here is the email:

Scary stuff. You should blank out your info though.

Good to know. I think that's the fake shipper's info.

yeah...none of that information is mine.

Ahh, OK. I didn't read everything.

ya, that happened to me a couple months ago. i ended up changing my password and stuff. paypal has email address you can forward that stuff to so they can try and track it down.

paypal has rabid dogs they send after that **** haha

http://www.paypal.com/securitykey

i'm sorry, but this has been around for such a long time that if you actually do fall for it its your own fault. i know its a dick thing tosay, especially to those who have actually been forked by paypal or scammers, but geez come on change your password once in a while. paypal never emails you asking to confirm your passwrod. and i always purchase things with my creditcard through there instead of my bank account because my credit card will fight for me especially if i didnt authorize anything.

What I do is enter bunch of bogus info into the log in screens and laugh at the site's stupidity.

One hacker site was trying to imitate a local bank were a friend of mine works as a system admin. They were getting angry customers because their information was being stolen. So my brother and couple other people build a database full of bs names and passwords. Then wrote a perl script and sent it to that site. Within couple hours that site was down due to over traffic