OT: Warming PayPal Fraud Scam Its not just paypal, its ebay, half dot com, etc.

[Bumbledor]

Steve, et ALL:
the same skam applies to your EBAY or Half.com accounts.. I constantly get
these offical looking pages sent to me, due to my being a power buyer on
Ebay. (I buy for 5 people who don't have internet access of their own). All
of them are a skam..
Ebay, PayPal, Halfdotcom will NEVER email you  a message asking you to
confirm your ID, password, Credit card info, or any other personal info.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:17 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] OT: Warming PayPal Fraud Scam


> Warning, this is the biggest FRAUD scam on the internet right now.
>
> DO NOT RESPOND TO IT!!!
>
> If you get a very official looking message from PayPal (an on-line
> payment service) that takes you to an equally official looking PayPal
> webpage that asks you to enter your Credit Card information, DO NOT DO IT!
>
> THIS IS A FRAUD!!!
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> You can NOT get to your genuine PayPal account settings without going
> to the main PayPal page, logging on using you username and password
> then proceeding to your Account Info page.
>
> There are several people running this scam right now, and I hate to
> see it because PayPal is an excellent, and very safe way to send money
> by email, or to use to purchase items on-line.
>
> My apologies to the group administrators and to the group for posting
> something so seriously off-topic, but the email and the webpage it
> directs you to look VERY official and it's very easy to be fool.
> Please do not fall for this scam.
>
> Forward, all fraudulent emails to -
> accessviolation at paypal.com
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> bboy_mn
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