Similarly, a couple of months ago I got a note that looked like it was from Earthlink telling me that my credit card has expired, and directed me to a link that sure looked like the Earthlink home page to update my payment method. By sheer chance, I happened to look at the banner on IE, and saw that it was not Earthlink. A very good forgery...
Lesson learned, use the internet like a phone...don't give out credit card info unless YOU make the call. Royce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald Johnson Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ShopTalk: Not Golf - PayPal scam Ed: I do a fair amount of trading on e-bay and I average about 3 of these a week. Always forward them on to e-bay/pay_pal. Also they will never ask for credit card/or bank accounts via an e-mail Don Johnson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Reeder Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:55 PM To: clubmaker online Subject: ShopTalk: Not Golf - PayPal scam FYI - I got an e-mail from "PayPal" that said my account was being held because of an invalid credit card or some such. They wanted me to login to a site and provide my credit card info. The mail was addressed to "Dear PayPal User" I checked with PayPal and they confirmed that it was a scam. Check out http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/email-security-outside for characteristics of fraudulent e-mails One key thing is that valid PayPal e-mails address you by name. /Ed
