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Paypal Scammers

Postby anniv 63 » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:55 am

Just to alert, that this seems to be on the rounds again.
Another family member, who uses the main pc received a personal e mail addressed note looking
for personal details to be updated on an e mail address that looked dodgy.
The other dead giveaway was "Dear Costumer!!! the silly B...ers !!!

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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby noelford » Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:38 pm

Mike, I don't know about 'doing the rounds again'...

In my own experience, these things have been a constant irritation every day for a few years, now.
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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby Tone » Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:46 pm

For me this attempted scam has never gone away - I get these emails regularly but my spam filter is pretty good at junking them.

I do wonder why these low life bother in view of all the publicity and warnings that we receive but, there again, I suppose that, statistically, someone is going to fall for it.

Cheers.

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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby neil2726 » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:03 pm

I get e mails from every bank in the country asking me to update my details. Trouble is I only bank with one of them!
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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby dave robinson » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:24 pm

I have a few choice words that I send in reply. I don't get that many these days. :lol:
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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:27 pm

I don't even bother doing that, just erase them immediately. As someone said, it's the 'Dear Customer' that's the dead giveaway - genuine communications from PayPal will always address you by your name.
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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby Twang46 » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:30 pm

Best way to deal with these is to forward the mail to your providers security dept as a "scam" & then delete the msg.

they do get taken down eventually, but then another one pop's up................ :x

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Re: Paypal Scammers

Postby Didier » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:27 pm

I receive PayPal phishing attemps on a regular basis, either in english or french. I use to forward them to : spoof@paypal.com which is intented to report them.

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