RE: FN-FORUM: Convincing PayPal phishing emails, be on your guard

date posted 28th January 2008 14:26

I was helping a friend sell a laptop on eBay and he got a very similar =
email saying the funds wee in escrow. It's lucky he phoned me to ask if =
I had anything big enough to ship it in, otherwise he would have sent =
it!

For anyone who isn=E2=80=99t sure, Paypal don=E2=80=99t actually offer =
any form of escrow service.

Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Rob =
Colton
Sent: 28 January 2008 15:27
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Convincing PayPal phishing emails, be on your =
guard


Another PayPal Scam

I got an email from a bloke wanting to buy some stuff we had for sale on =
a
classifieds site. He wanted to pay by PayPal. His original email was =
suspect
as (not being racist or anything) he wrote in African.

It started, Solicitations my good friend... Bit like the Nigerian =
emails.

Anyway... I wrote back, and gave him the price and my PayPal account.

Next day a very convincing email arrives from PayPal saying the funds =
are
ready and in Escrow and will be released once shipping is confirmed via =
an
Airway bill. Bless him he even added =C2=A3100 so I could ship to an =
address in
Nigeria.=20

Needless to say we stopped at that point. The email was actually from a
gmail account but all the logins went to the real PayPal site and the =
email
was as far as I could see perfect. Again, if yo are not looking for this
kind of thing it is easy to fall prey to these people.

R


On 28/1/08 14:34, "Sam M - www.wiredeyes.com" =
[EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:

>=20
> Just thought I would mention that I have received a couple of fairly
> convincing phishing emails today purporting to be from PayPal, one =
telling my
> my account is about to be suspended and the other with an offer for =
something
> or other. The reason I say "fairly convincing" is that they are in =
fairly well
> written English, have embedded images in the emails (Not just the log =
but
> even advert headers etc) making them look quite professional and they =
actually
> look like how PayPal send emails.
>=20
> Obviously the links to "verify account" with html part went to the =
phishing
> page and one which was written as a PayPal URL in the email but the =
html part
> went to the phishing page.
>=20
> All in all probably some of the most convincing phishing emails I've =
seen. If
> I didn=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2t have such a suspicious personality =
they might have easily caught me
> out.
>=20
> Regards=20
> Sam Morgan=20



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