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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:23 am
by metalboxproducts
I've just recieved this email. Does aney one know what the fuck i should do? Needless i say i didn't order any phone. Any one got the paypal phone number?
Dear PayPal Member,
This email confirms that you have paid LWPELECTRONICS (
sales@lwpelectronics.com) $474.99 USD using PayPal.
This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL LWPELECTRONICS*".
PayPal Shopping Cart Contents
Item Name: BRAND NEW NOKIA 8800 CELL PHONE
Quantity: 1
Total: $474.99 USD
Cart Subtotal: $454.99 USD
Shipping Charge: $20.00 USD
Cart Total: $474.99 USD
Shipping Information
Shipping Info: Bill Chang
202 N Magnolia Dr.
Saco, ME 04072
United States
Address Status: Unconfirmed
If you haven't authorized this charge, click the link below to cancel the payment and get a full refund.
Dispute Transaction
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
PayPal Email ID PP120
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:29 am
by pones
Phishing
Where does the:
"If you haven't authorized this charge, click the link below to cancel the payment and get a full refund.
Dispute Transaction"
Link point? Some spoofed paypal address?
My advice?
Ignore it
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:31 am
by metalboxproducts
Yeah i figured as much. Do you not think i should call paypal just incase?
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:42 am
by dj jsl
Just erase that mail and ignore it! It's a spoof from someone who wants you to expose your PayPal info. Ignore it!
My guess is PayPal knows everything about these spoof mails, but you can send them a mail with the content anyway just to let them know, in case.
cheers
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:45 am
by opwolf
I had exactly the same email from "Paypal" about a month ago saying I'd bought and paid for a dress(!).
Fraudsters trying to get your info, just bin it...
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:11 am
by cogent
I've had a few of these, first time it really did my head in but i spoke to a few peeps who told me the same thing as above, so i now ignore and delete.
I think the first time i got one, i did reply and click on the link, but i've had no grief... i think.
Out of interest, what would this cause? What info are they trying to get ?
The word phishing keeps coming up lately and i got IE 7 the other day, its got these phishing filters you can use. Do they work? or is it worth looking at getting some other kind of application to stop these 'Phishermen'...
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:12 am
by pablex
this sound a bit more harmfull than the usual "enlarge yuor dick" or "RE:cheap viagra" mails you can get allmost daily
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:19 am
by opwolf
Also, all genuine e-mails from Paypal will address you by your name and not as "Paypal member" like the one above did.....
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:22 pm
by hate recordings
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:33 pm
by metalboxproducts
Cheers peeps. Just got me a little startled.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:35 pm
by pones
Cogent wrote:Out of interest, what would this cause? What info are they trying to get ?
The word phishing keeps coming up lately and i got IE 7 the other day, its got these phishing filters you can use. Do they work? or is it worth looking at getting some other kind of application to stop these 'Phishermen'...
I think in this case the "Dispute transaction" will link to a site that looks like a normal Paypal page, even as far as the address looking like a proper
www.paypal.com address. This spoofed page will probably ask you to enter details such as your paypal login and password and possibly even bank/cc info. Enter that info and click submit and some naughty person has stolen this info.
The phishing filters in IE7 will supposedly check a suspect web address (there are ways of making addresses that look similar but are interpretted differently to the real address) against the correct address and against a database of known spoof/phishing addresses. I have no idea how effective this is, common sense is probably more useful.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:42 pm
by moderator
Another way to check for phishing is to "view source" on your email. Paypal's site is always going to be >>>>>https<<<<://
www.paypal.com.
Example : Roll over with your mouse on the link that's in the email. If you get something like this:
_http://___83.16.123.18/pp/update.htm?=
https://www.paypal.com/=cmd_login_access
Then you know it's phishing.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:43 pm
by spooky
Pablex wrote:this sound a bit more harmfull than the usual "enlarge yuor dick" or "RE:cheap viagra" mails you can get allmost daily
who needs viagra?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:12 pm
by kion
forward the email direct to
spoof@paypal.com and they'll endeavour to shut down the phishing site - they'll also email you back
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:14 pm
by kion
I had three recently, and it caught me out - spoofed up an ebay auction where someone was apparently messaging me for further info - and I clicked the link (I thought there'd been an error or something) - a split second later realisng what what going on I logged into paypal and changed my password etc.
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:50 am
by metalboxproducts
KION wrote:I had three recently, and it caught me out - spoofed up an ebay auction where someone was apparently messaging me for further info - and I clicked the link (I thought there'd been an error or something) - a split second later realisng what what going on I logged into paypal and changed my password etc.
Yeah. It does seems to work on people who are suffering a momentary lapse in they're suspicion or people who are really thick. Not implying your thick KION, btw.
Its's quite odd that in the last week i've recieved 4 dodgy email's sent to my personal account. This has never happened before. I get loads to my hotmail account but thats just part of the deal. I'm just wondering if it's to do with the setting that i changed according to Seckles instructions on a nother thread?
