Re: OT: Paypal scam ongoing...

Bill Paul wrote:

> I just came this close (imagine my fingers really close) to getting
> scammed by someone pretending to be Paypal.
> I just got an email that went something like this:
>
>> URGENT: PayPal System Problems
>> Dear PayPal User,
>> Today we had some trouble with one of our computer systems. While
>> the trouble appears to be minor, we are not taking any chances. We
>> decided to take the troubled system offline and replace it with a new
>> system. Unfortunately this caused us to lose some member data. Please
>> follow the link below and log into your account to make sure your
>> information is not affected. Account balances have not been affected.
>
>
> It goes on, and provides a URL inside the message that appears to take
> you to https://www.paypal.com, but in fact it takes you to
> http://www.paypalsys.com where you are asked to provide you login,
> password, CC info, SS#, etc. It was pretty convincing and even I, the
> most skeptical person in the world, was fooled for a couple minutes.
> They did get my password, but once I recognized it as a scam, I
> changed my Paypal password right away.
> After I've looked into the scam and reported it, it looks like a very
> well executed scam and they have done alot of work to pull it off. I
> hope they get caught.
>
> Anyhow, hopefully not too many are getting this scam message, and were
> quicker than I tonight.
> -Bill

I just HAD to look who registered this. Pretty curious, was created
September 10 and although all the administrative contacts look to be
PayPal it's tied back in to Earthlink.

I very highly doubt that PayPal has anything to do with Earthlink.

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Received on Wed Sep 11 23:52:05 2002