Paypal scam account restriction email (1 Viewer)

alan_rymer

Well-known member

• Sep 19, 2012

• #1

I received this mail yesterday that had been sent into my junk folder.
I had a good look at it and realised its one of those ones trying to get your Paypal account details.
It looks like something that Paypal might send, but look at the return address:
Paypl.com

Don't get caught out!

Incidentally Paypl.com is registered in Beijing!

 

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AndyC

Bird, What bird, where?

• Sep 19, 2012

• #2

The other giveaway is that its not addressed personally. Dear customer... should be an automatic red flag.

Andy

 

draycotebirding

Draycote recorder

• Sep 19, 2012

• #3

Alan, forward it to PayPal https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=xpt/Help/general/TopQuestion4-outside

Regards

John

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Sep 19, 2012

• #4

On a similar theme, I sometimes get this kind of stuff from variations of yahoo which are attempts to get me to divulge personal information to the schemers.

 

squidge

Wha Whassssat

• Sep 20, 2012

• #5

I had a genuine account review a few weeks back. Although I did double check with PayPal before I did the review. I would definitely send this to PayPal as I would say thousands of these mailings have been sent.

Regards Gerard.

 

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• Sep 20, 2012

• #6

Alan, that's a great heads up - thanks!

Not so easy to pick up at first glance, but as AndyC said, the "Hello customer" bit is a real giveaway.

Not the typical 'Chinglish' of some lesser attempts, in fact the grammar, and language is quite good, borrowing much of PayPal's own phraseology.

Allowing ActiveX scripts in this case could be devastating, as could opening the attached zip file.

I would report it not only to PayPal, but also your equivalent of the Federal Police.


Chosun :gh:

 

alan_rymer

Well-known member

• Sep 20, 2012

• #7

draycotebirding said:

Alan, forward it to PayPal https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=xpt/Help/general/TopQuestion4-outside

Regards

John

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Thanks John
I did send it to [email protected] originally and have now sent it to [email protected].

 

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thornlv

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2012

• #8

I too have had this, variation was the return address was paypaI (ending in a capital I eye), looked very convincing at first glance.

Others I had were the Met Police scam email and the 'Microsoft Security dept' phone call - in fact got this twice in the same week. One introduced himself as 'Edward' with a very definite and thick Asian accent who later changed to Micheal during the conversation. needless to say they were reported to relevant authorities.

 

bongofury

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2012

• #9

It may also be worth amending the image you attached and removing your email address.

 

kennethwfd

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2012

• #10

For me, the giveaway is that "personal information" is being asked for. the internet is not a secure medium and any financial institution will tell you that they never operate in this way. The whole purpose of having a password is that only YOU know what it is.

I am in the process of changing my broadband and home phone to an alternative provider and forgot my password. I was informed that my password could not be provided over the phone, if I could not remember it, it would have to be reset.

If in any doubt, contact the organisation the email is supposed to originate from, and ask for verification that they indeed sent it and the situation exists.

Be wary of clicking on links within a site or email, the ONLY way you can be sure you are going to the actual site, in this case paypal is to physically enter "paypal.com" and hit enter or go, or whatever command to go to that URL

 

alan_rymer

Well-known member

• Sep 24, 2012

• #11

bongofury said:

It may also be worth amending the image you attached and removing your email address.

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Thanks for the thought, as its a JPG it would not be available to the automatic scammers, but you're right. I shouldn't have left it in! Editing of the original post % JPG is not available now!

 

delia todd

If I said the wrong thing it was a Senior Moment

Staff member

Opus Editor

Supporter

• Sep 24, 2012

• #12

alan_rymer said:

Thanks for the thought, as its a JPG it would not be available to the automatic scammers, but you're right. I shouldn't have left it in! Editing of the original post % JPG is not available now!

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Hi Alan, I'm posting this as I'm not sure what you can do as opposed to what a Mod can (I could certainly delete that image for you).

I think you can through your Control Panel. If you scroll down to the bottom you'll see an option "Attachments"; click on that and it should come up with all the pictures you've uploaded to threads (latest at the top). There should be a tick box to the right of it then if you scroll down to the bottom, there's an option to "delete selected".

If you want to edit it, you can e-mail me an amended copy and I'll replace it for you.