[meteorite-list] OT: PayPal spoof warning

From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:31 2004
Message-ID: <006f01c35f05$910a9190$2931ef42_at_S0031628003>

This has been going around for some time. I never let money pile up in my
account. I had my card number stolen in Brazil, and they got me for $800 in
just a few minutes. It was refunded, but remember, PAYPAL is a cash account,
debit, so money can be stolen from it, that is what these scumbags are
doing.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: PayPal spoof warning


Hi All,

I probably don't need to warn most of you, but just to cover the
bases I thought I would post a message here since many of you
probably use PayPal. Some "enterprising" individual(s) is/are
attempting to trick PayPal customers into revealing detailed
account information. Usually these "spoofs" are pretty
unsophisticated, but the one I got today looked official enough
that someone might get fooled. It starts off with:

"This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by
PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.

"The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in
the next 3 months.

"Please confirm your email address and credit card information by
logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:"

- - - -

A form appears with boxes for email address, password, name,
credit card #, expiration date, and ATM PIN (for bank verification).
It finishes with the somewhat official-looking paragraphs:

"This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account
is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates
when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and
unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your
account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be
reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

Copyright© 2003 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks
and brands are the property of their respective owners."

- - -

If they hadn't been so stupid to ask for my ATM PIN, I might have
been a little less suspicious. Just wonder if this should this be
reported somewhere that handles fraud cases? --Rob

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Received on Sun 10 Aug 2003 02:06:32 AM PDT