I see alot of these and have instructed the wife as well as my daughter in the basic ways of trying to control this kind of thing. First, a company won't send an email like that to "Dear PayPal subscriber" They will always address it to the name that's on the account. Second, NEVER click on any links that are within the emails, even if you have an account or know the company. Always go to your browser, open a new window and type the address of the company yourself, then login with your account info.
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Polishnurse wrote: CapeM1, I hope you looked up the phone number you were given on revere look up. To see if in fact is was the Blue Cross, it will also give you the address of the phone number. Bill
And that can be spoofed as well. I have a friend that used to call me with a CID from the White House. I don't know how to do it, but it obviously can be done.
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I have, perhaps, gotten a couple hundred of those.. Like I put the fraud department at E-bay in my address book.. Saved me time when I forwarded
I use web mail so I make sure to hit the "Full Headers" option before I forward the pish That way E-bay has all the routing info and one hopes, they go for blood.
If I ran E-bay I'd be charging the phishers with copyright infringment for copying my web page's look (Very nasty) in addition to anything else I could bury them in
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business John is Near Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
PapPappy wrote: I've gotten that PayPal e-mail on several occasions....knew it was a fraud, as my wife has the account, not me! So, I forwarded it to PayPal, and they agreed that it was in fact a fraud.
Best bet....avoid anything that is coming to you via e-mail....unless you can verify it somehow.
But for those you you trusting souls.....I've got a really nice 2008 Class C, loaded with everything including a masseuse, a refrigerator that is forever full of beer, and it gets 60 mpg!!! for just $5,000.......um, you can send that money via my special PayPal account in Nigeria! Really!!! OK, I know I lost you with the 60 mpg!! :-)
Don't ask for them to use PayPal ou want them to use Western Union.That is another scam.
helperzack wrote: With my business I work with the elderly. I am always telling my clients to never speak to anyone that calls them asking for information. Many of my clients are early dementia and I worry about them.
One lady who was rather well off informed me that she had won the Canadian Lottery. I questioned her and found out that she had sent $10k to someone in Canada, and she was wanting me to take her to the bank to get a cashiers check to send another 5k as there were more taxes due.
When I tried to explain to her that it was a hoax, she assured me that it was not as she had received a box of roses from the guy after she sent the 10k. Sad.
Once she figured out that I was correct, she informed me that she was receiving many phone calls from all types of winnings. All of them saying that she only had to pay the taxes. The first one must have sold her number. We had to change her number.
Just can't trust anyone.
Montreal is the Capital of fraud for N.A. I worked a case a few years ago and it involved solicitation for advertising. Any way I called the PD up there and was informed that there was as section of a warehouse district that has mail and wire fraud embedded that is also where a lot of porno comes from.
I get two or three PayPal fraud alerts per month, and I'm sure there are more being screened out by the spam filters on my several email accounts.
I don't even have a PayPal account.
We had a scam running locally, caller purportedly from Clerk of Court's office, saying you didn't answer your call for jury duty, give me XXX information NOW, or we will be sending a deputy to your house to arrest you. Proper answer: "come and get me."
Nobody on the other end of a connection is guaranteed to be who they say they are.
Don't click on links in email purportedly from places you think you do business with, use your usual links instead.
Don't talk to people on the phone purporting to represent your credit card company, your bank, the phone company, power company, insurance company, whatever. Call the company on their customer service number, tell them you got this call from so and so, what is it that we need to talk about?
I'm a frequent ebay buyer and always use paypal. I NEVER respond to any email I get from paypal unless its for an instant payment for an item I just bought. If I want to know if the email is ligit I sign into my paypal account and see if there are any messages or alerts,if not then I know the email was bogus,someone wanting my personal info so they can access my account. We have more than one email address but only one linked to our paypal,so I know if I get an email there its definitely bogus.
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