Pay Pal ... is it real.

ahhhh...my lovely paypal friends...

It did take me until recently nearly 12 months to verify my address and card details.

Waste of bloody time sending any correspondence to them.


All the best trying to get anywhere with them

Also took me 6 months to get my account unlimited after a dispute between me and another customer.

Eventually got it done the other day, and funds added to my account for no apparent reason, to bring it to a positive balance...

Originally Posted by timwilky

it is simple html tags like http://www.paypal.com . Using this the test in the browser says paypal but when you click on it off you go to the phishing site.

Yes, but in this case it doesn't - it's PayPal most definitely.


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Seems to be a few going around , from mail-order catalogues to banking sites, cunningly misdirecting links to other sites (not the official one)

Just a simple rule I find works is If I want to change update details / profiles etc, I'll go in and do it manually not waiting for a mail, which usually sets of alarm bells

Edit:

Sorry, does in fact look like the real site, i couldn't see anything, but what i would do is open it from your computer, right click and view source, you'll get a pretty good idea where its from, if neccessary copy and paste the source up on here and we'll have a look

[timwilky]

Greg

Am I missing something or just being stupid. Richie has posted the visual text of his mail message. Not the message source. In doing this his mail client and browser have automatically converted what look like urls and mail addresses into same.

It is only by examining the mail source or (Only richie can do this as he is the only one with the original message) by hovering over the link in your mail client, that you will see where those links actually refer to.

The same with the actual mail from etc. It is so easy to forge SMTP mail headers I do it all the time when manually testing smtp setups


telnet mailserver.com 25
HELO test.co.uk
MAIL FROM : <customer.services@paypal.com>
RCPT TO: <richie.numbers@his.mail.com>
DATA
Subject: New User Added
From: Customer.Services@paypal.com
this is a phising mail etc...
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et voila the mail looks like it came from paypal customer services etc.

[TSM]

Originally Posted by Jelster

Here is the page at the end of the link....




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Look its not real, he has copied the message text from the email. It will only copy text you can see not the underlying URL. So its not a real email.

If you have FF why not get Netcraft phishing toolbar. It protects you against most phishing urls & gives you a Risk Rating for sites

tim's right you know thats why i edited my post

Originally Posted by TSM

[Look its not real, he has copied the message text from the email. It will only copy text you can see not the underlying URL. So its not a real email.

If you have FF why not get Netcraft phishing toolbar. It protects you against most phishing urls & gives you a Risk Rating for sites

I just clicked on the link in the original post, which would, of course, take you to the url as it was typed.. I was forgetting the underlying source code could redirect you

If you keep HTML email turned off, their is far less chance of this happening anyway...

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[Richie]

I've changed my pay-pal password through the proper pal-pay site, then I thought I'd follow the link to see where it went .
So I logged in with a Completely made up password and it led me to this page where I'm supposed to fill in all my Personal card details...
So I now have the word MUPPET tattooed on my head do I... No I don't think so...
This must be a scam please beware out there...


I did not submit any information to the site and have emailed paypal centre.