Paypal scam.

[Gene Hunt]

Just looked in my hotmail to find an email from a paypal look alike showing a payment has gone to Skype for 39 quid. Never even used Skype so before doing anything checked my paypal account & no such payment was sent.
There was a link on the ''dodgy'' email saying ''click here'' for full refund if you did not authorise this payment so please check before doing anything.

[marko]

 
scum!!

[RedRobin]

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There's quite a few scam emails around at the moment with attachments asking you to open them and falsely purporting to be documents to do with shipments from well established providers.

They probably rely on hitting someone who at the time actually is tracking a shipment or transaction with that particular provider and they then open it without thinking too much about it.

Feckin' scumbags!  

You know, rightly or wrongly, I don't have a problem with bad boys who knock over banks and mail trains (Ronnie Biggs) etc or who evade tax (as long as no-one gets physically injured), but I hate those who prey on families and individuals.

[Tamiyoman]

My std reply to them is "GET  A F*&^%$G JOB YOU LOSER" THEN ADD TO BLOCKED EMAILS LIST.

[RedRobin]

My std reply to them is "GET  A F*&^%$G JOB YOU LOSER" THEN ADD TO BLOCKED EMAILS LIST.

....Best not to respond at all, Myles. They probably think they have a very nice job by what they gain from less suspecting innocent folks. Just mark the email as Junk and trash it.

Responding runs the risk of 'declaring war' and someone then targetting you more precisely rather than you being just a random email address trawled off a porn site 

[pipston]

My std reply to them is "GET  A F*&^%$G JOB YOU LOSER" THEN ADD TO BLOCKED EMAILS LIST.

....Best not to respond at all, Myles. They probably think they have a very nice job by what they gain from less suspecting innocent folks. Just mark the email as Junk and trash it.

Responding runs the risk of 'declaring war' and someone then targetting you more precisely rather than you being just a random email address trawled off a porn site 

Your exactly right RR, a bit like this guy:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

[Tamiyoman]

I have a father who is extremely cautious for online stuff, half of the security we have i dont know what it does 

[MC71]

I will never be caught again by this type of scam. I answered an email like this one about 6-7 years ago and I'm still paying for advanced Internet and indentity security now and my name is on several watch lists for fraud as I had my identity stolen and all hell broke lose.

Not going into it now, have done previously on this and other forums but NEVER answer an email as sometimes that's all they need. Report it directly to the company it's allegedly from using a number/email address you have sourced yourself and not one given to you.

 

[neg]

I've had a few of these too ... delete, delete, delete.. ah, not any more.

[Kalpsn2000]

These scams have been going since the start of email. Basically the advice is to not open any attachments or click any links in emails no mater how official they look.

I always google the site or type the known correct address in the bar and contact them directly if i think it may be legit.

I usually mark those emails as phishing scam in hotmail (not sure if microsoft actually do anything about it though).

[RedRobin]

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Most of you are probably already aware of this but, say you get one of these scam emails from someone pretending they are from 'X'... Contact the real 'X' independently and not from within the scammer's email or link they might give and inform them but don't forward the scammer's email until invited to and until told where to send it... You are likely to find that many of the real 'X' companies are already aware of such scams and similar ones and have a team of specialists to deal with it. It is better to let them pursue the scammers in ways they know best how.

That's what I'm going to do next time I receive one instead of junking it immediately.

[Tortaruga]

I recently did exactly this ^^^. I phoned my bank's fraud department (that is very arguably an oxymoron) and they asked me to forward the email to them.

[RedRobin]

I phoned my bank's fraud department (that is very arguably an oxymoron)

....I had to look up the meaning of "oxymoron"! I think you could argue that in the light of recent bank scandals the words "bank" and "fraud" aren't necessarily uncomfortable sat together 

[Baz300]

I had someone reset the password on my hotmail account blocking me out, they then went onto my PayPal account and tried to reset the password, the link was sent to my hotmail email for resetting the password.

I was quite lucky that I was starting work at 6 am that morning and managed to reset my hotmail password and see the PayPal reset password email and put a stop to it before they got into my PayPal account,

All they needed was my email address