Paypal phising email

[stewie]

Just to let you know that I received a phising email from someone purporting to be paypal this morning, basically asking me to update my accounts within 24hrs or they will invalidate my account, the spelling and grammar where appalling, even worse than mine :rolleyes: I was going to cut and paste it into here as a warning but there was a link on it and I didnt want to spread anything onto here or via the forum, just be careful.

[Spiderman]

Thanks for the warning, i only just recenlty got a paypal account set up so its handy to know if i get the same.

[stewie]

Actually just got an email back from paypal, I forwarded the email onto them, it was defo a phishing email, the spelling and grammar where the giveaway, you cant be too careful

[keith_d]

Actually just got an email back from paypal, I forwarded the email onto them, it was defo a phishing email, the spelling and grammar where the giveaway, you cant be too careful

Yes, but have you seen the way americans spell???

[Jamiebridges123]

Copy paste it just remove the link :o

[stewie]

tried, wouldn't it have it, deleted it now

[Bluepete]

My Ebay account was hi-jacked over the weekend. The interloper signed up for all sorts of business things costing mucho money, then put up some listings. However, Ebay spotted it and cancelled it all! I've reset my passwords and all is good.

[Geoffrey]

i get a few of these, also some from hsbc and tsb which is interesting as i have never had an account with them yet they require me to update my account details.

[Speedy Claire]

I`m getting them all the time Stewie... is pishing me off!

[chompy]

Just to let you know that I received a phising email from someone purporting to be paypal this morning, basically asking me to update my accounts within 24hrs or they will invalidate my account, the spelling and grammar where appalling, even worse than mine :rolleyes: I was going to cut and paste it into here as a warning but there was a link on it and I didnt want to spread anything onto here or via the forum, just be careful.

go onto the paypal site and send it to the fraud e-mail on the ste, it ill then stop anyone else from recieving it.

[SoulKiss]

go onto the paypal site and send it to the fraud e-mail on the ste, it ill then stop anyone else from recieving it.

Haha, you believe that?

Sorry for being so snappy, but how can PayPal (or any site for that matter) block mail being sent from any mail server, or compromised home PC that has been set up by spyware to send out these mails.

Just delete the thing and forget about it.

If your mail client has a "mark as spam" do that as well, but thats not really going to do much either.

[chompy]

i dunno, but i havent recieved anymore fake one about paypal so it seemed to work for me

[SoulKiss]

i dunno, but i havent recieved anymore fake one about paypal so it seemed to work for me

Cool.

Oh BTW I have this magic rock that keeps lions away, since I bought it I haven't been attacked by a single lion.

Wanna buy it?

:smt081:smt081:smt081:smt081:smt081

All PayPal can do is investigate where it was sent from and then act to have that IP address blocked from sending mail.

There is nothing they can do to stop a mail server sending mail to another mail server that they dont control.

You have just gotten lucky with this one.

SPAM is almost unstoppable, the best you can do is filter it to a manageable level.

[punyXpress]

My Ebay account was hi-jacked over the weekend. The interloper signed up for all sorts of business things costing mucho money, then put up some listings. However, Ebay spotted it and cancelled it all! I've reset my passwords and all is good.

LO LO LO and
You're nicked
aren't very good passwords or pet's names IMHO

[jamesterror]

I get plenty of "phishing" and "spam" emails from supposed banks, the ironic thing is I'm not with any of them :D

Chompy there is no way of spotting it, that button just alerts PayPal of the matter, just look out for spelling, who its from, the URL you are clicking, cos it'll be a sub-domain with paypal in it to make it look so.

[yorkie_chris]

http://www.419eater.com/