Stuka Stunt Main Forum · 8 of 8 known posts recovered
Cary
Ebay's suggestioned to sign up again under a different name and I also had them completely remove my first name from "registered users" database. Unfortunately, my feedback history went with it.
Bill P.
Tom McClain
Have to laugh about the active email account here.. My ebay account doesn't have an active email address. Tried to update it several times and could never get it to process. I tried to contact EBAY tech support several times for help and have never gotten responses. Guess if they don't have a good email address they can't send me the scam letters. 
Makes bidding and buying a pain but manage to work through it.
Finch
Steve"Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 07:59:18 +0000
From: PayPal <[email protected]>
Subject: PayPaI officiaI notice
Sender: PayPal <[email protected]>
To:
Reply-to: PayPaI <[email protected]>
Original-recipient:
Dear PayPal user,
PayPal is constantly working to increase security for all of our users. To ensure the integrity of our
payment network, we periodically review accounts.
Your account will be placed on restricted status. Restricted accounts continue to receive
payments, but are limited in their ability to send or withdraw funds.
To lift this restriction, you need to complete our credit card verification process. At least one credit
card in your account has been unconfirmed, meaning that you may no longer send money with this
or any other card until you have completed the credit card confirmation process. To initiate the
credit card confirmation, please follow this link and fill in all necessary fields:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_rav-form
Thank you,
The PayPal Account Review Department"
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The above is the email message as it appeared in my in box (including the hard coded carriage returns). However, the entire body of the message was a hot link theat took me to this URL:
http://211.47.191.125:199/cgi/index.htm
Both the message body hot link and the link above take one to official looking pages. However, one can tell that they are not official PayPal pages due to the fact that the URL in the Browser address bar does not begin with:
Look for this in your Browser's address bar before using PayPal. If it's not there, you have NOT reached an authorized PayPal site.
There were a couple of things about this message that indicated to me that it might be a bogus email attempt at fraud. First, both eBay and PayPal state that they will NEVER ask for personal information via email. Secondly, the "l" at the end of the word PayPal in the subject and reply-to blocks in the header shown above was actually an upper case "I".
Both eBay and PayPal state emphatically that, if you receive a message about which you have the slightest question, forward it immediately to " [email protected] " or " [email protected] " respectively. This will put the message into the hands of the proper security personnel. They will notify you whether the message is legitimately from the specified company or not. Forwarding the email to them will also help them to track down and, hopefully, stop this activity.
What does all this have to do with Control Line model airplanes? I have used my PayPal account to purchase CL items from our host as well as other suppliers and, of course, from assorted eBay sellers.
As the original poster stated, "BEWARE!!"
The Old Sourdough
Ruksakinmakiak, Alaska, US of A
There is no end to the ways that fraud or spoofing can take place.
Often common sense is the only thing that tells me that an email message pointing to a website is a spoof intended to extract my password and other info. Such suspicions are usually confirmed by an examination of the raw source, but that's a skill that is hard to expect everyone to develop.
Here's a list of common scams--not including the famous Nigerian Bank Account Transfer scheme that will not die--and what you might do to avoid them...
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How common? Very - thousands of cards are compromised in this way every year. But most are in the US.
How to protect against it? Check your statement for peculiar transactions.
How common? Fairly - store software is widely available on the Net, and requires little expertise to set up.
How to protect against it? See whether anyone else on the Net has used the site - look for mentions on websites you trust. Search for it on Google's "groups" area: if it's a fake it may already have been mentioned.
How common? Very - it's a primary fraud on the auction site eBay.
How to protect against it? See if an item being sold has been sold recently. See if the auction deadline is suspiciously short. The scammer doesn't mind getting below the normal price, as long as he gets some money quickly, before the fraud (on the stolen card) is spotted.
How common? Increasingly - new variants are emerging more frequently.
How to protect against it? Don't trust e-mails that appear to come from your bank; most of all, don't just click links in e-mails. Go to your bank's website (typing in the location by hand) and check the details. Failing that, call your bank. If it were really important, they would have sent you a letter.
How common? A surprisingly large number of people - perhaps you - have machines infected with one of the many Windows viruses. Such machines generate spam and are a security risk.
How to protect against it? Install and update new antivirus software; install and use a "firewall". If you have broadband, these are essential. Try to keep up with Microsoft's security updates.
Cy