fake paypal email?

Well, I got this email from paypal saying my account is limited for unauthorized money transfer ?
I log onto paypal(not from the link on the email) and check theres no such thing. The Transaction id and case id number are both invaild.
is this a fake email? plz help +k.
http/" alt=""/img177.imageshack.us/img="177/518/untitledpf1.jpg[" alt=""/img056e7ffae6][=http//imageshack.us][img="056e7ffae6]http/" alt=""/img177.imageshack.us/img="177/518/untitledpf1.jpg[" alt=""/img056e7ffae6][/url]

Dear Paypal Member = SCAM

I've had a email like that once on a email account that isnt even a PayPal account lol. Auto-Scam

What does the status bar (at the bottom of the browser) say when you hover your mouse over the link? You could just right click it and click Copy Link Location.

And it'll probably not be PayPal's site.

Just hover your mouse over the links and see where they are trying to send you. It's an obvious phishing attempt, but check anyway.

The sad part is some people fall for those emails =/

[quotea64c3b5b6e="TFOAF"]What does the status bar (at the bottom of the browser) say when you hover your mouse over the link? You could just right click it and click Copy Link Location.

And it'll probably not be PayPal's site.[/quotea64c3b5b6e]
I don't get it? ?

u mean this?
javascriptol('http//hometown.aol.de/waleebola/mypictureswithtommakeandothermyfamilybuisness/');

LOL AT THAT LINK.

Thats definitly a suspicious site. roll

Its a fake then. Damn I was kinda scare when I got that email...paypal limiting my account again...

should I report to paypal?

[quotef68e751c9c="CollidgeGraduit"]Just hover your mouse over the links and see where they are trying to send you. It's an obvious phishing attempt, but check anyway.[/quotef68e751c9c]

exactly. how people fall for these is beyond me.

but,
forward those to email==spoof@paypal.comspoof@paypal.com=spoof@paypal.comspoof@paypal.com/email
and forward the ebay ones to spoof @ebay.com

they claim they look into those.

I get those all the time in my scambaiting account. I tend to "bait" 419 scammers into wasting their time with me to ridicule them.

I opened up a new email address and everything and only commented 3-4 Nigerian guestbooks and BOOM phishing emails, Nigerian scam mails, UK Lottery Winnings, etc. galore

By the way, fake webcam services get to you too so DON'T GIVE YOU CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO ANY WEBCAM SITE U GET FROM AN EMAIL.

Yes. PayPal has an email address you can report fraud and scams to.

lichecks the siteli

https//www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact

Click "Fraud > Spam/Suspicious Email"

Then you can report it.

[quotef216f4b54d="TFOAF"]Yes. PayPal has an email address you can report fraud and scams to.

lichecks the siteli

https//www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact

Click "Fraud > Spam/Suspicious Email"

Then you can report it.[/quotef216f4b54d]

what do I include in the email though? a screenshot of the email I got?
I know I'll have to put the URL down.

"Copy and paste here the email you received"

And then your message, like what you want to tell PayPal yourself.

Give them the links too.

cool, thanks
+k

+k to CG too

what.....

YOu dont have to copy, paste, send them your sob story.
Just click the forward button, and type in email==SPOOF@PAYPAL.COMSPOOF@PAYPAL.COM=SPOOF@PAYPAL.COMSPOOF@PAYPAL.COM/email in the "to" box.

That's all.

lol...I copy and paste the email to the paypal site and I saw this(the two paypal links from the fake email)

http//www.geocities.com/marcusjohns1/1.JPG

http//www.geocities.com/marcusjohns1/2.JPG

[quote733caa57de="Dave82"]what.....

YOu dont have to copy, paste, send them your sob story.
Just click the forward button, and type in email==SPOOF@PAYPAL.COMSPOOF@PAYPAL.COM=SPOOF@PAYPAL.COMSPOOF@PAYPAL.COM/email in the "to" box.

That's all.[/quote733caa57de]

that'll work?

I was gonna copy and paste the email and post a screenshot

Yea yea yea. Do what Dave said. That way you can just foward the email to them or something. So they see it directly.

alright I just reply and wrote 1 sentence...lol
hopefully they don't need any info from me.

they get 72387274974932 of these emails. You dont need to write them about nigerian bob trying to get you password. they created the email address SPOOF so they know what's coming.

But definately good you are reporting it. I always take the 4 seconds to forward those in hopes they are actually cracking down on some of those scammers.

Whos nigerian bob?

[quotebcccb71d5a="Darvinuk"]Whos nigerian bob?[/quotebcccb71d5a]
maybe him?lol
http//www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1132
if u haven't read this, U GOTTA!! All 205 pages of it.

"To use the leech, we recomend you log in and activate a proxy. (you must be logged in to use the proxy, however)

If you are serious about causing damage to the sites targeted by the leech, we strongly recomend you open the full script by using the link below."

What the hell is that?

GCY Check out theFAILURE's audo bait on Charles Soludo and his other Cole baits.

Hilarous shit.

Make sure when reporting phishing e-mails to PayPal, banks, or anywhere else, that you include full headers and HTML source. Just forwarding the text of the message itself, and especially just a screenshot, is a waste of their time and yours as it does no good at all from an investigation standpoint. They MUST have full headers and message source in order to track down and identify the e-mail origination.

[quote8aa34b57a8="dmorris68"]Make sure when reporting phishing e-mails to PayPal, banks, or anywhere else, that you include full headers and HTML source. Just forwarding the text of the message itself, and especially just a screenshot, is a waste of their time and yours as it does no good at all from an investigation standpoint. They MUST have full headers and message source in order to track down and identify the e-mail origination.[/quote8aa34b57a8]

so cant you just press the forward button (provided your settings include all of the message, wwhich most do as inline text)

[quote404c944c94="Dave82"][quote404c944c94="dmorris68"]Make sure when reporting phishing e-mails to PayPal, banks, or anywhere else, that you include full headers and HTML source. Just forwarding the text of the message itself, and especially just a screenshot, is a waste of their time and yours as it does no good at all from an investigation standpoint. They MUST have full headers and message source in order to track down and identify the e-mail origination.[/quote404c944c94]

so cant you just press the forward button (provided your settings include all of the message, wwhich most do as inline text)[/quote404c944c94]
I imagine most e-mail clients properly forward all headers, but who knows, then you've got all the webmail clients out there...

I'm just saying be aware and make SURE you're sending all the headers. Try a test by forwarding to another e-mail account of yours, then viewing the message source/headers to see if you got everything.

A lot of people cut & paste phishing e-mail content into the web-based form that PayPal and a lot of banks provide, but if you don't include the headers when you do that, then you aren't giving them anything useful.

[quote58efad6d51="GCY"][quote58efad6d51="Darvinuk"]Whos nigerian bob?[/quote58efad6d51]
maybe him?lol
http//www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1132
if u haven't read this, U GOTTA!! All 205 pages of it.[/quote58efad6d51]

I forgot about that...now that youve reminded me, i have to read all of it. Last i read, i was on the cole 2.0 or something. lol

Cole 4.0 is insanely stupid. Check him out =D

Oh did you read the part where he re-baited Cole 1.0?

The really sad part is they have access to paypal users email= database. I have always used catch all domains for my email so when signing up for something the email will be email=sitesigningupto@mymaildomain.comsitesigningupto@mymaildomain.com database. I have always used catch all domains for my email so when signing up for something the email will be email=sitesigningupto@mymaildomain.comsitesigningupto@mymaildomain.com/email

Paypal was originally email==paypal@mymaildomain.compaypal@mymaildomain.com=paypal@mymaildomain.compaypal@mymaildomain.com/email. I never give out that email= for someone to pay me, I use gmail for that. I have changed it to email=paypal2@mymaildomain.compaypal2@mymaildomain.com for someone to pay me, I use gmail for that. I have changed it to email=paypal2@mymaildomain.compaypal2@mymaildomain.com/email and email==paypal3@mymaildomain.compaypal3@mymaildomain.com=paypal3@mymaildomain.compaypal3@mymaildomain.com/email and they always get the email.

It's pretty surprising and sad how sloppy some of the large companies are but with this setup it is easy to filter spam so I never have to see it.

I always forward the email= to email=spoof@paypal.comspoof@paypal.com to email=spoof@paypal.comspoof@paypal.com/email so they get the headers.

AND NEVER USE THE LINK GIVEN IN MAILS THAT CLAIM TO BE FROM PAYPAL.

ALWAYS OPEN PAYPAL - HttpS//www.paypal.com/

There are some sites that are exactly like paypal so they make you login to that site so that they can get your ID...

Just look at the header. You'll see where it really comes from...

if you would notice to read they never send you links in a email so umm its a scam and why click on it just go to ur paypal account and check stop being so lazy

[quote0965d757be="freaky1718"]if you would notice to read they never send you links in a email so umm its a scam and why click on it just go to ur paypal account and check stop being so lazy[/quote0965d757be]
lol..u should read this thread b4 posting. I never click on the link, I did check paypal and there wasn't such a thing. I'm just not sure if that email is a fake.