paypal compromised on the q.t ????

the black fox

the black fox

Suspended / Banned
Messages
17,082
Name
Jeff
Edit My Images
No
had a e/mail this morning seeming to come from paypal ,verified shield etc ,right name and it looked 'right" it was asking me to update my expired card details ,ithe only thing that stopped me doing it in fact was the acc numbers didn't match up with my card/s .i forwarded it to spoof at paypal .com and it came back as a phishing attempt


PLEASE TAKE CARE IF YOU GET ANYTHING AT ALL LIKE THIS AS IT REALLY SEEMED GENUINE . THIS IS THE BEST ATTEMPT AT SCAMMING PHISHING I HAVE SEEN SO FAR ,E/BAY WONT LET ON AS TO HOW FAR THEY WERE COMPROMISED BUT THIS COULD BE TO DO WITH IT .


PLEASE BE CAREFULL
 
Last edited:
Yep i had an email saying i needed to go online and check my details as apparently i had made a payment for £60.. which i hadn't... it was in the spam section of my emails with a warning suggesting it may not be genuine
 
Phishing scam yes, a sign that PayPal has been compromised, absolutely not...this type of scam happens day in day out...and the simple solution is always assume an email is suspect so go too the website (do not click the link in the email) the only exceptions to this are solicited emails such as where you've requested to reset your password :thumbs:
 
My other fav is you wont be able to use your e.bay account again till you click on this link :rolleyes:
 
I disconnected my card from my paypal account ages ago - but i still get these emails :shake:
 
It's great along with the refund from the Inland revenue I have (not) applied for - Oh and one the other day, my online account for Lloyds has been suspended - didn't even know I had an account with Lloyds :rolleyes:
 
why i flagged it it was not just because it was a phishing scam (i to gets loads of them) it was the sheer credibility of this one ,it looked totally real .the players (SCUMBAGS) have certainly upped there game with this .my lad who's a computer whizz even said it appears to have originated from either paypal or someone working for them ,and that was after seeing there e/mail saying it was a scam .

its not beyond credibility that they might have a crook or two working for them is it
 
its not though as neil said the url isn't a paypal url - a crook working for them would have far easier ways of getting account details
 
I get them from barclays daily. I don't have an account with Barclays.

Its funny because they seem to come in 3 one after another with a time stamp sometimes in the future. Barclays, Natwest and santander. Within Mins of each other.

Dear Customer blah blah blah. Yeah right put my name in it and I may take more notice
 
I think you should get the thread title edited, this is a phishing scam and nothing to do with Paypal.
 
Steep said:
I think you should get the thread title edited, this is a phishing scam and nothing to do with Paypal.
Click to expand...
and whys that ,do they have something to hide ,as i have already said this looked like a genuine message ,far better than anything i have previously seen .and if it stops even one person from getting scammed it will have done its job . not everybody is computer savvy and clever otherwise these e/mails wouldn't exist .

in pay pals normal generated replies it states the way to look for fraudulent e/mails is that we use your full name
paypals e/mails will have a green safety shield ..

THIS PARTICULAR PHISHING ATTEMPT HAD BOTH OF THOSE AND THEREFORE LOOKED 100% GENUINE it was only the wrong card number that alerted me .
 
the black fox said:
and whys that ,do they have something to hide ,as i have already said this looked like a genuine message ,far better than anything i have previously seen .and if it stops even one person from getting scammed it will have done its job . not everybody is computer savvy and clever otherwise these e/mails wouldn't exist .

in pay pals normal generated replies it states the way to look for fraudulent e/mails is that we use your full name
paypals e/mails will have a green safety shield ..

THIS PARTICULAR PHISHING ATTEMPT HAD BOTH OF THOSE AND THEREFORE LOOKED 100% GENUINE it was only the wrong card number that alerted me .
Click to expand...

Probably because PayPal hasn't been compromised as the title suggests....
 
MWHCVT said:
Probably because PayPal hasn't been compromised as the title suggests....
Click to expand...

This.

Never believe the address you see on an email unless you have a positive reason to do so. As neil said, hover your cursor over the link they want you to click to see the actual address the text links to.
 
got a very authentic looking one from Virgin this morning
clear.png
 
Last edited:
related question is the email doing the rounds from ebay telling everyone to change their passwords after a cyber attack , genuine or fake ? (I changed my password but declined to click on the link in the email on principal - and I'm not stupid enough to use the same password for ebay as I do for paypal anyway (nor do I leave a card linked to my paypal account)
 
big soft moose said:
related question is the email doing the rounds from ebay telling everyone to change their passwords after a cyber attack , genuine or fake ? (I changed my password but declined to click on the link in the email on principal - and I'm not stupid enough to use the same password for ebay as I do for paypal anyway (nor do I leave a card linked to my paypal account)
Click to expand...

Genuine, eBay has had a scare this week and actually was prompting a change if you went on the website...it was even on the news
 
neil_g said:
Although I don't recall the official email having a click here type link? May be possible that phishers have jumped on that as a way to get details out of people.
Click to expand...

yeah that was my thought - it'd be a cold day in hell before I clicked on a link in an email like that even if it looked totally legit ( I change my important passwords every six weeks anyway , and I mean change not just change one digit on the end )

I generally pick a word at random out of the dictionary , or out of a book I'm reading ( a different word for each account) , reverse a couple of letters and add a number and or some punctuation

having a near photographic memory helps with this staying secure lark.
 
Last edited:
Having a crap memory means I have a list of my passwords in a book that I keep beside the computer when I'm likely to need it. Having a deep distrust of banks and most of the interweb, I don't do internet banking and have a dedicated credit card for internet use. PINs are a royal PITA for me as well. Luckily I only use one card on a regular basis and have a number I have always been able to remember set as its PIN (no, it's not my or a family member's DOB!). The Other PINs are hidden and well encrypted.
 
Nod said:
Having a crap memory means I have a list of my passwords in a book that I keep beside the computer when I'm likely to need it. .
Click to expand...

*makes a note to burgle nods house* that is not a good idea with a capital N
 
None of the passwords give any access to any bank details or anything that needs to be secure. You want a bad idea? Internet banking. Or trusting someone to do what they say they'll do with a camera you've loaned them.
 
Nod said:
None of the passwords give any access to any bank details or anything that needs to be secure. You want a bad idea? Internet banking. Or trusting someone to do what they say they'll do with a camera you've loaned them.
Click to expand...

oh that's me busted - obviously I sold your lomo to support my crack habit and then lied about the RM losing it , that'll be why I offered to pay for it :bang: travelling cameras get lost/damaged etc - if it was so precious to you that you can't accept that then you shouldn't have sent it travelling in the first place.

that aside - do you have an amazon account , a google account, and email account ... seriously writing down passwords is really daft thing to do , if you have memory problems its more secure to write down an aide memoir , or if you really must write down the password don't keep it right next to the computer

This reminds me of a bloke I knew in a previous job who had great trouble remembering the burgular alarm code at the workshop - so he wrote it on the wall next to the alarm panel in marker pen... he honestly couldn't understand why that was a problem :eek:
 
Read my post again. The book is beside the computer when I'm likely to need it and is not kept there (or in plain sight.) I don't have any cards registered to my Amazon account - I enter the card details each time I buy something from them.

How you support your crack habit is no concern of mine but when I say I'm going to do something, I do it and if I say I'll post something RMSD, that's how I do it. Have you chased the camera (and more importantly [to me] the case) both of which had stickers on with a return address in case the RM managed to lose them? I'm sure there's no avenue for compensation from them having failed to send it as you said you would but I'm equally sure that the Branscombe post master/mistress should be told (if that's where it was posted) about the parcels that have gone missing. You offered to pay an e-bay price for the camera and offered nothing for the Peli case. Keep them both and enjoy them.
 
I actually remember reading official advice (I've no idea where I saw it, but if someone wants to Google it be my guest. I CBA) that if you have a poor memory for passwords, it's far better to have a complex password and write it down somewhere than to go for a simple password that you keep in your head.
Apparently, statistically you're far more at risk of your password being breached online than a burglar breaking in and taking away notebooks etc on the off chance that a password is written down. They tend to be more of the" get in and get out as quickly as possible with anything obviously valuable" school of thought.

Of course, writing the burglar alarm code on the wall takes stupidity to a completely different level altogether :lol:

p.s. Gentlemen, if you want to open up a new thread on the other matter, happy to move it into the "disputed area" for you (even though it's not technically a trade) so that you can sort things out openly there.
Don't think we want any more of Pete's crack exposed in OOF :hungover:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top