False email using Pay Pal
Friday, February 11, 2005 by joeKnowledge | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
be careful you guys... it had to happen I guess.
I got an email from 'pay pal' and it wanted me to conferm my account...
I looked at the link and its not real. the actuall address goes to some sort of kids website (Town4 Kids), but add the back part and it takes you to pay pal 'website'
Main link:
http://202.172.226.72/
Now add this to the link above in the address bar:
.cgi-bin/login.htm
now I am on a pay pal site??? give me a break!!!!
I got an email from 'pay pal' and it wanted me to conferm my account...
I looked at the link and its not real. the actuall address goes to some sort of kids website (Town4 Kids), but add the back part and it takes you to pay pal 'website'
Main link:
http://202.172.226.72/
Now add this to the link above in the address bar:
.cgi-bin/login.htm
now I am on a pay pal site??? give me a break!!!!
_02
Reply #2 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:21 PM
Reply #2 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:21 PM
Joe, PayPal never sends email asking for any info on your account. Never.
Dark-Star
Reply #3 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:22 PM
Reply #3 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:22 PM
Oh man! Now you tell me!... JK
I got this same email and did the same exact thing and looked at the url. Some of those are really convincing. I've seen then create addresses like, http://services.paypal.x.com/login.htm or something close to that.. hehehe
I got this same email and did the same exact thing and looked at the url. Some of those are really convincing. I've seen then create addresses like, http://services.paypal.x.com/login.htm or something close to that.. hehehe
Essencay
Reply #4 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:29 PM
Reply #4 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:29 PM
I get similar ones from Microsoft and from different financial institutes.....scum preying on folks who aren't too computer savvy. 
tjesterb
Reply #5 Friday, February 11, 2005 3:53 PM
Reply #5 Friday, February 11, 2005 3:53 PM
I've gotten about a half dozen of those PayPal phishing emails. I was pretty sure the first one was phony, but I forwarded it to PayPal and they confirmed that they would never send an email like that. I got a few more, but haven't seen any for a while.
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Reply #1 Friday, February 11, 2005 2:10 PM