eBay email scam warnings! Pay Pal too!!!

[Rob218]

Hey everyone there's another one going around as well. It's normally an email from something called PayPal.com or something near it. In the email itself it tells you to download the attachment (MiMail.[insertletter here]) and fill out the form or else your account will be deleted. The MiMail.A-Z is just many different forms of the same worm. The worm takes all the information, sends it to the worm creator through an FTP client, and badabingbadaboo the creator has a new account.

Check out this site here:

http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/

It's one of the leading anti-virus software producers in the world. They have an only scanner floating around there too. It IS SAFE. I've used it.

[acepaintbller]

Thats why i don't have ebay e-mail

[hockaloogey]

i saw something about that - i don't care

[Rob218]

Thanks for the useless spam.

The MiMail worm now goes through something like P now so there's a good 16 versions of the worm out.

[rdb123]

Originally posted by hockaloogey
i saw something about that - i don't care

Great, no one cares.

[Cryer]

I had one today where the subject read "you are dissmised"

[Trigger_Happy]

I got one of these from Paypal about 3 weeks ago, and one from Ebay about two weeks after that. They look legit. I went so far as to click the link in the paypal email and only stopped short when I saw the level of information I was being asked for.

I logged in via a new browser and my account was not frozen as teh email had claimed! I emailed paypal and report, and just now I got a general note from them saying that I "may be at risk for some spoof mail". Apparently somebody hacked into their system and got names, emails, and addresses. They claim that financial data is safe and all, but I'll be keeping a close eye on my bank statement

[DukeNukem#1]

I get these all the time. I get paypal ones about 3 tmies a week. It is extremely frustrating to say the least, because I feel that I always need to manually go to my paypal account (manually, not by their links) - just to verify that everything is okay.

[PyRo]

I just foward all the ebay ones I get, usually about 10 a week to [email protected]. The paypal ones I just ignore, about 4 a week. I just to have my e-mail adress for my ebay name, thats probably why I get so many.

[Jack & Coke]

whoo hoo...

I just got my first spoof email.

Now I can join the "club"



look real huh?

I also got this reply from www.paypal.com

Thank you for contacting PayPal.

Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can
confirm that the email you received; was not sent to you by PayPal. The
website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used
by
PayPal. We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do
not
enter any personal or financial information into this website.

If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this
fraudulent website, you should immediately log into your PayPal Account
and
change your password and secret question and answer information. Any
compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate
parties.

If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal
transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by
following
the instructions below:

1. Go to https://www.paypal.com/
2. Click on the Security Center at the bottom of the page
3. Click on "Report a Problem"
4. Select the Topic: Report Fraud
5: Select the Subtopic: Unauthorized use of my PayPal Account, and
click
Continue.
6. Follow the instructions to access the appropriate form

If you have any further questions, please let us know.

Sincerely,

The PayPal Team

[Annihilator44]

Ya...I just got 2 from ebay and 2 from paypal in 2 days...lol even though I knew they wouldnt say anything back. I replied and said STFU YOU F'KIN SCAMMERS =/ just got a little pissed. How i always check is if they address you "Dear Paypal user" or w/e its a scam. Paypal always addresses you with your name. Also when u scroll over the link where it says log in make sure there is a "s" in the "http" so..."https" even if the initial link has "https" make sure to scroll over it. They tried that on me. Of course I cant be fooled .

P.S Im sure you all know about this, but might as well say it =/

[1ofkind]

Gee, thanks man I'll keep my eye out