[meteorite-list] OT: PayPal spoof warning

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:32 2004
Message-ID: <3F3608E4.5080605_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, Robert,

you can forward the e-mail recived with full headers to;

abuse_at_paypal.com

PayPal is never asking your information by e-mail, these
spoofs are usually routed via different servers just in
mening to get your PayPal password or, like in this case,
also your credit-card and bank-account information.

Some of these spoofs look very sophistic ones, and all
other links except the form are linked to the real PayPal -site.

take care,

pekka




Matson, Robert wrote:

>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 04:57:08 AM PDT