Speaking of todays Tips and Tricks

[Mikey 219]

anyone else receive an email to update their paypal account info? Bogus or not bogus?

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Dear valued PayPal® member:

It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before May 30, 2004.

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:

Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
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[Surfn]

I gotten several of those

They are trying to get your email and access to your account.

[Mikey 219]

shyit - i logged in, but i didnt agree to the terms and shit ... hauling ass to change password now.

[Cleo]

Been getting them for a few months now.

[Mikey 219]

i must be ok, changed my password (id assume hackers would change password if they got to it in time so i couldnt get in ???)

Thanks for the tips and tricks - i always read em

Thanks for the input cleo and surfn!

[Jim]

I got one that I could swear was from paypal last week. I even sent it to spoof@paypal.com to ask if it was real. They wrote back the next day saying no and thank you.

[Surfn]

Was there a newsletter today?

[terry]

Jim - same here. They even emailed me asking if I could forward them a copy of the email with the header info.

The best thing to do when you receive email like this is look at the link. If you cant see it, right mouse click and select copy shortcut, or use any other method you know how to copy the link, then paste it somewhere so you can read it. For PayPal, the links will always go to paypal.com something like: (https://www.paypal.com/fraudcheck/se...html?sl=070304) but it really goes to something like: (http://v093707.blabla.kasserver.com/...erry/scampage/). So if you don't see it linking directly to PayPal, its not from them.

I get the same type emails from ebay as well.

NOTE: I modified the scam link above, even though it has been shut down, just so nobody would mistanly click it or something.

Terry

[RawAlex]

I think I am going to start a new site with tips of how to avoid phishing.

Basically, NO COMPANY WILL ASK YOU VIA EMAIL FOR THIS INFORMATION. If they think there is a security issue, they will be ON THE PHONE, or better, IN WRITING VIA SNAIL MAIL.

Want to have fun? Go to the site in question and fill in BS info. Lots of it. Fill in the form 25 times. Give them 25 semi valid made up names, fake addresses, etc. Give them the whole load.

If enough people do that, their data will be useless.

Alex

[Mikey 219]

Originally posted by RawAlex
I think I am going to start a new site with tips of how to avoid phishing.

Basically, NO COMPANY WILL ASK YOU VIA EMAIL FOR THIS INFORMATION. If they think there is a security issue, they will be ON THE PHONE, or better, IN WRITING VIA SNAIL MAIL.

Want to have fun? Go to the site in question and fill in BS info. Lots of it. Fill in the form 25 times. Give them 25 semi valid made up names, fake addresses, etc. Give them the whole load.

If enough people do that, their data will be useless.

Alex

hehe - this reminds me of what i do with credit card offers - since they say 'no postage necessary' i fill them with a bunch of shit and send them back

anyhoo, thanks Jim, your tip couldnt have been more timely

[Cleo]

This article came out today about this kind of shit.
Phishing scam reports skyrocket in April