PAYPAL scam/fraud Warning!!

[drchris1024]

Got an e-mail from Paypal ( supposedly) this morning. It was a payment notification that I hadn't done. Oh no. I thought someone accessed my Paypal account. It said to go here to Dispute Claim http://www.soft8.org/. /paypal.com/claimfill/cmd-run=/ Only the button said DISPUTE CLAIM... had to log in and everything.. well long story short..It is a False e-mail False website set up just like PAYPAL only to steal passwords and credit card info. Have spend most of the morning changeing passwords and cancelling credit cards and checking accounts. They didn't get me for anything just cost me alot of hassell-mad -mad

 

[platinum01]

Thanks for getting the word out about that. I have it set up guess need to watch for this email. Copied it to new email to get the word out. People always steal stuff. No need

 

[94f450sd]

never login to a paypal account through an email message!!!!!always type the paypal address into to your browser or access it through ebay.

 

[95_stroker]

never login to a paypal account through an email message!!!!!always type the paypal address into to your browser or access it through ebay.

Very sage advice, same goes for ebay, I've had countless scam mails from "ebay" or someone pretending to be ebay with a link to log in and secure my account.

 

[Roland_Jenkins]

You can help somebody else by forwarding that email [email protected]

 

[JimmyDee]

You can help somebody else by forwarding that email [email protected]

Correct info and you will get a big thankyou note from them as well.
Jim

 

[Tx_Atty]

the big tip-off is that the url they try to get you to visit is not a paypal or ebay address. Hover your mouse over any suspicious link and if the address does not match the "sender", dont click it. When you hover over the link, the destination is shown on your status bar at the very bottom of your browser.

 

[CHPMustang]

I send those fake paypal emails to [email protected]

 

[BamaSixGun]

never login to a paypal account through an email message!!!!!always type the paypal address into to your browser or access it through ebay.

i never use paypal at all. what happened to just sending a cashier's check in the mail? i know its slower, but just as effective.

 

[Digital Oxygen]

PayPal is such a joke. I admit I use them, but to this day they don't have access to my bank accounts. They keep nagging me to "get verified", and I keep telling them to shove their verification where the sun don't shine.

I've heard and read too many horror stories where paypal arbitrarily freezed up accounts, debited large sums of monies from people's BANK accounts for no reason, then invoking some narly stall tactics to keep that money.

They call themselves a "bank", yet they do not follow any Federal Banking laws, and they sure as hell aren't FDIC insured.

You can read up on paypal and their tactics at

www.paypalwarning.com