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Crafty Motherfuckers/Beware...
Posted: May 22, 2003, 12:39 pm
by Animalor
Got this message this morning in my hotmail junkmail box.
Dear PayPal Customer
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 and Credit Card info number by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:
Email Address:
Password:
Full Name #:
Credit Card #:
Exp.Date(mm/yyyy) #:
ATM PIN (For Bank Verification) #:
This notification expires May 31, 2003
Thanks for using PayPal!
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.
If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to
http://removeme.providian.com/.
Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
The thing has text boxes and a login button, the paypal logo and everything.
The url that the login button sent the information to was the following.
The url from port5.com has been disabled now btw so noone else is gonna get scammed. Gotta be careful where you put in your info...
Posted: May 26, 2003, 9:54 am
by Lexien
It's only missing your Social insurance number...
Why don't you answer that e-mail and put me in the c.c field
Posted: May 26, 2003, 11:16 am
by miir
Anyone stupid enough to submit that type of information over a non secure connection deserves to be ripped off....
Funny if someone actually thought that asking for your credit card number, expiry and ATM PIN was normal procedure to verify an active account.
Posted: May 26, 2003, 1:10 pm
by Krimson Klaw
I bet this gets older people that are new to online ordering. Most younger people are hip to these scams, but not all. That scam is terribly sad. Peeves me because I can see my grandmother getting burned on something like this. Their generation has a *take people at their word, the government never lies to you* mentallity, where ours is totally opposite. Very sad.
Posted: May 26, 2003, 10:01 pm
by Boogahz
These emails are still going out. Got one on a Hotmail account that isn't tied to any Paypal account which made me chuckle.
Posted: May 27, 2003, 12:25 pm
by adicus
i just got one simmilar to this , but claiming to be from ebay.
asked for a hell of OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of personal info such as sin number , bank account info.... drivers license number.
never laughed so hard in my life!
Posted: May 27, 2003, 12:36 pm
by miir
Look at it this way.
If someone were to send you a letter or call you on the telephone asking you for this information, would you give it out without verifying the source?
Hell, even if someone called me from Mastercard and asked me for my CC# and expiry, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves.
1) No site will ever have a ligitimate reason to request a login/password.. even for their own site.
2) Never EVER transmit a CC number over a non-secure connection or website. In Internet Explorer it's as easy as looking for the little lock icon on the bottom status bar.
3) Never give out secure information (SIN, ATM PIN, Bank Acct, CC#) via email. Email is not secure.
4) Always use a unique login/password for secure sites. Who cares if your VV login/pwd is the same as other forum passwords. No real harm can be done on a message board.... but it sure as hell better not be the same as your EQ login/pwd. Same goes for other shit like ebay and paypal.
Anyone who falls for scams like this is seriously lacking in common sense.
Posted: May 27, 2003, 2:43 pm
by Animalor
I got one claiming to be from Verified by Visa
Bump...
Posted: June 21, 2003, 5:46 am
by Laliana
I just got one of those today, and I've used my paypal account within the past two weeks. (And no, it wasn't to help pay for an engagement ring
)
Posted: June 21, 2003, 7:13 am
by Tenuvil
I got one of those emails too, also to a Hotmail account I use for junk.
Nasty thing about is is the from header is spoofed so it appears to come from a paypal.com email address.
I did forward the email on to the fraud department at paypal. As they are a federally chartered bank this stuff is taken somewhat seriously.
Posted: June 21, 2003, 11:21 am
by Sionistic
apparantly this happened to best buy also, i only bought one thing online from them and it was a long ass time ago, ive gotten 2 emails so far from best buy saying that there is a fraud going on