Narrowly avoided disaster last night

Good for you ! You did good !

Thanks for the 'Heads Up'.      

eBay, PayPal, and ALL other services I can think of would never operate like that.
PayPal will keep you on their books for years, even with no account activity.
They realize some go months without checking email.

Yup, Pay Pal even warns about these fake e-mails on thier web site. Thanks for the heads up...

"Shop" and My Snipes

There have been warnings posted about this sort of thing, but I don't do a huge amount of buying so I didn't think it would happen to me. (Famous last words....) Be careful, please.

I'm sure your email address didn't come from a trusted service. It was probably picked up from a site somewhere you only visited once.

Don't know how much junk email you get, but you may find it now grows exponentially. You might consider changing your email address to stop it. Kind of a pain in the backside,(updating all on-line accounts) but well worth the time.

Thanks, Puppy and Shop. *Big sigh* Hopefully the spamming problem won't happen. Only time will tell.

I have had a real spate of them from Ebay. I think 3 in the last 2 weeks.

Lexie

I get them constantly. I just forward each and everyone to ebay or wherever they are a spoof of. If you spend much time in any of the Ebay forums, you will quickly realize that some people Do answer them and of course, they then have all of the personal info they need to really do you harm.

A very nice person just made this for me and I wanted to show you all. I just thought it is so pretty!

Very pretty

Lexie

Hi, Lexie. Three in the last two weeks?? There are more of those lousy e-mails out there than I realized.
That's a nice signature picture, Mrs. M.

The nifty thing I have found is when you click to forward it to spoof@ebay.com - it actually gives you the numbnuts email addy

Lexie

Not only PayPal spoofs comming in, but a few weeks I started receiving E-Bay spoofs. If any e-mails ever asks you for your ID or password information, never -- never, fill in info. Send to your ISP carrier and to PayPal or E-Bay. The ones involving E-Bay is because they know that most people use the same password for both. If you fill in the E-bay changing policy e-mail then they will use the password to try and access PayPal. Oh, obvously never give them your charge card and banking information. As faras how they are getting your e-mail address, is I found that (I am also a buyer) when you click on an auction item to view at E-Bay, and you hear your computer crunching, famoose! Spyware is being installed on your computer!!! I very, very seldom go anywhere but AOL search to find info on their web. So, I know that that is how this is happening. Aol has free spyware you can install. There was 170 items that were deleted!!! Ending each day, I run spyware and delete their stuff from my system, and on those days -- I had not been anywhere or opened any e-mails -- but just on E-bay buying and selling!!!

YIKES

Susan

I just started getting them for credit cards That I Don't Even Have! Guess they're just spamming on the hopes you might have a credit card issued by that bank!

Will wonders never end!

When the paypal spam first started a friend of mine fell for it ... she got lucky and got an uneasy feeling a few minutes later ... called her bank and then went through the hassle of changing accounts, but didn't get hit with any nasties.

Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'

I haven't been hit with that one yet. The only time I have ever had my account compromised was not online, but at a local Kmart! I guess in this automated world we live in, you have to be careful at every turn.

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Originally posted by Mrs.M:
I haven't been hit with that one yet. The only time I have ever had my account compromised was not online, but at a local Kmart! I guess in this automated world we live in, you have to be careful at every turn.

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My response to people that complain about using credit cards over the internet has always been, "You don't seem to have any problems handing your card over to your waiter, store clerk or person at the telephone order desk!"

I've worked in restaurants as a bookkeeper ... you would be AMAZED at the number of servers who stupidly think they can double swipe a credit card and get away with it! Most people still look at their statements - and they *do* call to complain! Getting fired / going to jail just doesn't seem to be worth the little $$$ they temporarily gain.

Bottom line ... you aren't safe anywhere! But if you have a little common sense you'll minimize your problems.

Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'