Kate Wills Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 Over the weekend, I recieved two e-mails, purporting to be from Paypal, announcing that my account would expire in five days, and that I must re-register. This was required, it stated, for security reasons. I forwared it to Paypal's 'spoof' site, who confirmed it as fraudulent. Please compare any new e-mails from Paypal with previous communications. The fraud will have an attachment. Please don't open. Forward it to Palpal, and delete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hill 60 Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 Kate - Thanks for the info. I've had a couple of these e-mails, but I have a habit of deleting them without even opening them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Clarke Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 I received similar e-mails over the weekend and they still seem to be coming. As you might expect, each carries a virus but they do look convincing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark A Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 Cheers for that Kate. I've had a similar one purporting to be from my ISP asking for bank details- it was a fake. I think this is becoming a more common problem. When in doubt, delete it or send it on to the relevent people for verification. Cheers again- M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 There are also emails purporting to be from the High Street banks at present, requesting the login and password of those who use internet banking. Do not respond to these emails. Banks never ask for this kind of information by email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
182 CEF Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 Also watchout for email from "ebay" asking to confirm your account info,these are also false. I have had a few of these over the past couple of weeks. Dean Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted 9 December , 2003 Share Posted 9 December , 2003 In the past I have had messages purporting to be from Paypal and ebay. Luckily I haven't been fooled (yet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina Holstein Posted 10 December , 2003 Share Posted 10 December , 2003 I've had at least 6 of the Paypal messages in the last few days. My ISP picks them up before they even get to me and all I get is a notice to say that they had a virus and had been deleted. I've had the Ebay messages too but not yet anything from the high street banks. The Nigerians seems to have gone quiet for the moment as well. Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broznitsky Posted 10 December , 2003 Share Posted 10 December , 2003 The Nigerians seems to have gone quiet for the moment as well. "NIGERIA VOWS TO TAKE STEPS TO CURB SPAM SCAMS Nigeria's political leader has vowed to take steps to curtail the notorious 419 net scam. The country has launched an inquiry and promises to come up with some potential solutions, including legislation, within two months." http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031127/152/ef2ot.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRIAN TALMER Posted 10 December , 2003 Share Posted 10 December , 2003 We have also received paypal emails which we forwarded to their site. I was pleasantly surprised to have the email confirmed and a couple of follow up emails detailing what they were doing to try and prevent the fraud. Bone crusher - the Nigerians are leaving you in peace as they are blitzing High Wycombe. I'm going to spend the fortune I receive from them on gaining three inches, performance enhancing pills and increasing my cup size!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina Holstein Posted 12 December , 2003 Share Posted 12 December , 2003 Brian - Having had a few quiet days the Paypal fraudsters are rampaging again. However, I've had no offers of viagra, extra inches to various body parts or enhanced performance for quite a while. In fact, it's very very quiet down my neck of the woods. Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Birch Posted 12 December , 2003 Share Posted 12 December , 2003 There is another scam doing the rounds. It purports to come from a character in Zimbabwe whose farm has been overun by "war veterans" and his whole family killed. Fortunately he has managed to liquidate the family assets of some £30M and is looking to transfer it out of the country. The only way he can do this is to pass it through your bank account. As he is trusting "you" with this money he is prepared to give you 10%. All he needs from you is details of your bank account. I can't imagine many sane people falling for this one, but beware - anyone tempted by this offer will find funds rapidy flowing out of and not into their account. Chritina, you should count yourself lucky. The amount of scam I have received offering to enlarge a certain part of my anotomy has started to make me feel that either I must be inadequate, or the majority of the males on the internet are! Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broznitsky Posted 13 December , 2003 Share Posted 13 December , 2003 Tim and anybody else: The Zimbabwe farmer, the various Central African Princes, South African despots, Congolese millionaires, etc are just variants of the Nigerian 419 scam. Unfortunately, there are enough unwise people who fall for this blather to keep the fraudsters going. Just wondering, I never get any of those "enlargement" emails. Does this mean I am already adequate?? Peter (suddenly feeling more sure of himself ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Birch Posted 13 December , 2003 Share Posted 13 December , 2003 Peter What's it worth not to pass on your email address to the scam operators? Or maybe you would like the lonely 23 year old blonde lady who has just moved into your area, and is looking for new friends, to contact you as well as all the other guys on the net? Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina Holstein Posted 13 December , 2003 Share Posted 13 December , 2003 I've had the Zimbabwean scam, or something very like it. The most blatant scam I've seen came - misspelled - from something purporting to be official and noting that I had been sending pornographic pictures (me?) from my email address and fining me £247! Odd sort of sum. All it needed was for me to send them my credit card number and they would do the rest. I think it's so quiet because my ISP picks this stuff up before it gets to me. Although I have had two hoax Paypal requests this morning so all is not lost. I haven't had the lonely blond lady, though, nor blond gentleman either. Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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