Warning

I had this happen to me early on in my online career. I had to close my bank accounts and cancel credit cards, it was awful! I have since become much wiser and know not to open anything from PayPal or Ebay unless it has my account name at the beginning. I also learned that you can forward these phishing emails to spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com. They promise to investigate and prosecute.

Here is another one circulating at the moment.

Again the link is: http://www.e-gold.com/news.html

but if you scroll over the link it is something different.

DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK.




Subject: RE: [e-gold-news] USDOJ has seized all physical gold assets

Another indictment, handed down on October 30, 2007, charges E-Gold Ltd; Gold & Silver
Reserve, Inc.; and their owners Dr. Douglas L. Jackson, of Satellite Beach, Fla.; Reid A.
Jackson, of Melbourne, Fla.; and Barry K. Downey, of Wo

I too have recieved tons of the emails in all of my email accounts I have and I just delete them they are all bocus.

Reta

I receive these daily...and what is so funny...
I don't even have a pay pal account that is active!
What a joke!

PayPal only sends emails using your name in the greeting (and not dear friend).

eGold never sends emails.

Hope this was helpfull to some :-)

That's the game they run these days and to avoid it is simple. You know when a bad e-mail is in your inbox it's normally something you never seen before.

Yes we have to be very careful with such emails receipt as they have the software which can copy our password.
Thanks for posting this information.

Hi Claudia,
I received one from PayPal (supposedly) telling me I needed to log into my account immediately to keep my account from closing...I did'nt quite feel right to me so I just deleted it. The next time I will take David's advice and forward the mail to the payment processor.
Thanks to you Claudia & David!

Yes this happens all to often

It is buyer beware world

Remember to report them

Like winning the lottery ones

Makes you wonder where or how they get all those addies

Wendy

Thank you Claudia and others for the useful alerts and comments. I have been a victim before, so I know the value of your invaluable posts. I wish the perverters of the Internet would turn a new leaf, and allow us to enjoy the full benefits undistracted.

This is a much needed warning for everyone, particularly for the new online marketers. We all need to make sure the message is spread about.

Good job Claudia. I have gotten lots of those emails. When I get one from PayPal or Ebay I just forward it to www.ebayspoof or the same for Paypal. You just have to be careful of all emails.
But thanks a bunch for pointing this out to us.

I think this must receive a TOP.

I'm already telling people about these things on my page about scams, hope your voice will reach more people.

Thanks Claudia, there are a lot of these things doing the rounds these days, Couple of good points from Zac and David.

The other thing is if ever you are in any doubt then go and login to your account from your NORMAL LINK, If there are any isues or any updates that you need to act on they will nearly always be found here.

Dave

Hi Claudia
Nicely done! A great post that everyone should be made aware of!

Another tip would be to scroll over the link ( DO NOT CLICK IT ) and you will be able to see
what the link is and most times it will be different.

EG:

Paypal url is http://www.paypal.com
When you scroll over the link to see it would be
completely different it will usually be a longer url like this

http://www.something_in_here.paypal.com

NEVER EVER click to open these links.

Hi all,

If any of you receive a mail that is you suspect is fake, don't click the link just forward the mail to the payment processor or supplier.

For paypal - spoof@paypal.com
ebay - spoff@ebay.com

For other sites please check where to send false mail, I believe they would also be spoof@XXXX

I have sent a number of false mail to paypal and ebay, they actually try to find out where the mail comes from and deal with it. Unfortunately as they are caught, more pop up all the tie.

Have a gre

Thanks Claudia. When you are busy, it's easy to forget and click one of those things. It's good to get a reminder.

Thanks Claudia for the heads up!
We have received a few of these emails already and have sent them onto the different
authorities. It turns out that this is quite a common thing. Lesson here as you say is never
give out any info that can ID your account. Send email first asking about the ownership to these emails to your financial institutions help page.
Again Claudia thanks.
Bon Voyage,
Monika & Wayne

That's great advice. Reputable companies will not ask for your information in an e-mail. Don't be fooled by the fact that the e-mail has the logo either. Just about every online financial logo has been compromised. They use them to fool unsuspecting people into believing their are the real thing.