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New for You! Fraud against Paypal, online Buying etc.
Categories: Dating, Pen Pals, Friends: Member Safety Online & Offline, Scam Warnings
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Submitted by: Nannette | View Member Profile | View Other Posts
Created: 12/2/2003
I am going to quickly report some fraud I've noticed lately with regard to scammers using Paypal's name and one an FBI agent asked me to share:
I seem to be getting emails from paypal.com. Of course, they are not from paypal, but are "spoofed" to look like they are. They contain viruses. Don't open any attachments.
But today, I received one that had a lot of thought put into it.
They send you an email supposedly from paypal, using the paypal.com email address. And the verbiage has a weblink to paypal.com and requires that you fill in your credit card information to keep your account going.
However, the "verbiage" is not text, it is a clickable image. The image then takes you to a URL that is an IP address and NOT to the paypal.com website. At this new website is a form that LOOKS LIKE paypal.com's credit card fill-in-the-blank form.
I have reported this to Paypal's fraud department. I suspect that once you fill in the form, they now have your complete card info and will have a hey-day with your money. Please NEVER fill in blanks with your card info unless the URL matches the site you are doing business with. AND never reply to a mail with any card info. AND never open file attachments, period. Even if they are from friends. With the exception of GIF or JPG image files. So far, those are still safe.
The next fraud scam I want to report was told to me by a friend who works for the FBI. He asked me to tell as many people as I know about it because it is big crime on the internet now.
Here's how it works. You go to a place, like an auction site, and sell a big ticket item, such as a boat or car... something worth thousands of dollars. This person buys this item from you. But instead of sending you a check for your asking price of say, $10,000, they instead send you a check for $13,000. You, being honest, call them and tell them the check is for more than they had to pay. They "shucks I'm sorry" all over the place and tell you to go ahead and deposit the $13,000 check and just issue them a $3,000 check and mail it back to them.
Meanwhile, their $13,000 check is bogus, so you don't get that money at all. And you've sent them a $3,000 check out of your account. So they are $3,000 richer and you are $3,000 poorer along with any fees your bank charges you for depositing a hot check. Who knows how much else you've lost out on if you actually send them the item they supposedly "purchased."
If this happens to you, return the check or tear it up and make them issue you a check for the exact amount. Do NOT attempt to deposit it or send them the item until you get a check for the exact amount. If you do not get one, then they were a scammer all along and you got to keep your item and your dough.
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