Paypal Phishing

[R. Richard]

I got an e-mail, supposedly from Paypal, starting "Dear Paypal Member" and telling me that I needed to enter my Paypal information right now, or my account would be suspended. Because of my literary background and the fine tuning I have received as a Literotica authour I was immediately able to discern that the e-mail was a phishing expedition. [If course, the fact that I am not a Paypal member helped a bit!] I contacted the Paypal web site and was told to forward the message to "spoof@paypal.com". I did and received a confirmation from Paypal.

1) I get maybe a spam e-mail a week from "Paypal," despite the fact that I do not have a Paypal account.
2) A legitimate Paypal e-mail would have addressed "R. Richard," not "Member" or "Customer" or an e-mail address. [All per Paypal.]
3) BEWARE!

Comments?

 

[S-Des]

They've been doing that shit for a long time. I started getting warning letters from PayPal not to respond about a year ago. They do it on a number of sites. Bottom line is, never go to any credit card or bank site by clicking a link, always type the URL.

 

[Guest]

Quite right.

The thing is, I DO have a Paypal account. And I've gotten a few of those emails.

Once I received a message saying that my electronics order for $300+ dollars was cleared and about to go through. I needed to click this link to make any changes, yadda yadda. Jerks. (I order electronics, so that one was sneaky.)

Usually they are sent to an email account that has nothing whatsoever to do with Paypal so I know immediately it is a hoax. But a couple of weeks ago I received one on the "authentic" email account for Paypal. Still, I deleted it as Spam and went through my normal channels to my account, checked everything, and then anal-retentively changed the passwords just to be safe.

 

[neonlyte]

Quite right.

The thing is, I DO have a Paypal account. And I've gotten a few of those emails.

Once I received a message saying that my electronics order for $300+ dollars was cleared and about to go through. I needed to click this link to make any changes, yadda yadda. Jerks. (I order electronics, so that one was sneaky.)

Usually they are sent to an email account that has nothing whatsoever to do with Paypal so I know immediately it is a hoax. But a couple of weeks ago I received one on the "authentic" email account for Paypal. Still, I deleted it as Spam and went through my normal channels to my account, checked everything, and then anal-retentively changed the passwords just to be safe.

**makes note of ...subsarahh's anal-retentive password**

 

[Guest]

**makes note of ...subsarahh's anal-retentive password**

Pervert.

Wanna go phishing?

 

[R. Richard]

By the way, I have been told by Paypal that they aggressively pursue and prosecute people who try the Paypal phishing expeditions. I hope it is true!

 

[Guest]

By the way, I have been told by Paypal that they aggressively pursue and prosecute people who try the Paypal phishing expeditions. I hope it is true!

If they can find them.

I've reported them when it happens. We'll see.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I always report them...

make sure to TURN ON your "Full Headers" when you forward the email to "spoof@paypal.com" otherwise they can't track where it came from...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That's Rule #15 of the internet rules...https://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=18098536&postcount=1

 

[Guest]

But Paypal and eBay are not the same thing.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

But Paypal and eBay are not the same thing.

True...but the concept is the same.

 

[R. Richard]

But Paypal and eBay are not the same thing.

Ebay bought Paypal, back in 2002 IIRC. Thus eBay and Paypal are at least part of the same company.

 

[Guest]

Ebay bought Paypal, back in 2002 IIRC. Thus eBay and Paypal are at least part of the same company.

I'd wondered about that, actually. Ebay certainly pushes the use of Paypal.

Thus we must remain ever vigilant.

 

[oggbashan]

I was getting so many PayPal phishing e-mails that I closed my oggbashan account.

At its peak I was getting more than 20 a day.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

I was getting so many PayPal phishing e-mails that I closed my oggbashan account.

At its peak I was getting more than 20 a day.

Og

I had much the same experience, although probably more like 10 a day. Worse yet, I couldn't get into my Paypal account myself and I couldn't get Paypal to reply to my e-mails. I finally had to threaten to sue them to get my Paypal account closed.

 

[arienette]

I get about one or two a day, but Gmail is awesome so they go right into the spam folder immediately.

 

[R. Richard]

I get about one or two a day, but Gmail is awesome so they go right into the spam folder immediately.

If you don't already, you should forward them to Paypal to try to cut down on the number of them.

 

[matriarch]

I feel deprived.

 

[R. Richard]

I feel deprived.

If you feel deprived because you are not getting phishing e-mails, "You aint missin' nothin'!"

 

[Goldie Munro]

I have never paid for anythig over the internet by paypal - I take my chances with my credit card - if they are gonna rip me off they will!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The rule is: is you EVER have to go to your PayPal account, go there through your own bookmark. DON'T click on the link in the email they send you. That'll take you to their phishing site.

If you check the URL of the real PayPal site it will--surprise, surprise--say something like www.paypal.com. The phony sites will have all sorts of gobbledegook up there.