I get quite a few of these every week - from PayPal, eBay, CitiBank, SunBank, USBank, etc. Needless to say, I don't even have accounts at most of the banks, and I get these messages at email addys not even registered with those I *do* have accounts with.
When I get those claiming to be from PayPal or eBay, I immediately forward the entire message with full headers to either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - whichever is appropriate to the message. In each and every case, I have received a reply thanking me and stating that the messages were, in actuality, fraudulent and the email would be used in their investigations.
My motive in doing so is to, 1.) get the fraudulent websites shut down as soon as possible (saving some clueless users from losing their bank accounts) and 2.) possibly bring some of the crooks to justice.
Tom Fosson
At 12:18 AM 1/14/2005 +1300, you wrote:
paypal did announce a change in their policy recently to improve 'security, the details of which
escape me BUT I suspect that this phishing email is socially engineered based on that...........
you know the rule: do not click a link etc............
I vaguely remember that their changes were designed to counteract this sort of thing...but of course
they will be on their official website and not in an email.
Financial intermediaries DO NOT send email about account information unless it is secure web mail
ON their official web site which you can only access through the usual [ secure ] log in
procedures.......
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter MacGregor" Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:13 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] OT Paypal
:
: Then a PayPal ID is given that I don't recognise. I've never had such a
: thing before - Scam or Genuine? The web site looks odd to me! I can email
: PayPal and ask them but before I do comments would be welcome
:
: I have registered with PayPal but haven't got round to using it on my site yet.
:
: Peter MacGregor
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