offshore Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Anyone receiving a notification of payment from Pay Pal, should take particular note of its contents and sender. I note from another forum (unnamed at this time) that a regular long term member was contacted by a relative newb, to buy a watch. He then received a payment notification, which appears to be a "phishing" email, supposedly from Pay Pal, confirming payment. This is a most troubling escalation of some of the scam attempts which have been seen of late. The matter is being investigated, and we will report further on this one, suffice to say, if you receive a payment notification, look VERY carefully at the sender, and most certainly don't click on any links within it, asking you to confirm ANYTHING!! Pay Pal would never ask this. It is not clear if the buyer is involved, or if he has had his account hacked, however he is a relatively new member with low post count. Therefore it is possible, that "phishers" are registering on our rep fora to gain account info from members. BEWARE. Offshore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Thanks for the warning O/S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4GTR Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Thanks for the heads up. I'd like to nominate you as the official in-house Paypal expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Forward ALL phishing/spam directly to - spoof@paypal.com Paypal does investigate & take action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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