I know these scams have been around a long time but lately we have been receiving an increasing number of them, and we wanted to alert the ebay community. Since most regular ebay users have a paypal account this information may be very valuable. It will present itself in a very official email of the receipt of a paypal payment from your account. When you open it , a very authentic looking paypal statement will appear. It will be for an item that you havent bought or even looked at, and will be for a more than nominal amount. On this invoice there will be a button that states if you did not pay for this item click here, on the premise that you will be opening a dispute. The next page you will see will be a VERY authentic looking paypal login page-very familiar to all paypal users. After entering account, password and login button , you will land on an empty link and you may even backscreen and make another attempt.What you have essentially just done is furnish an unscrupulous individual with access to your paypal account and all banking items that may be linked to it, including a wealth of personal information. If you indeed fall into this trap you must immediately change your password. In doing this make sure you login with the link that is available on the left column of your my ebay page, as this is probably your most secure link. You should always access your paypal account from your ebay page.Keep in mind that these type of scams are very hard to detect and for the most part are originating outside the US, from cybercafes and untraceable IP addresses.
by carcomusa

Replying to [supraguy]: I just receive an email from paypal asking me to renew my personal info. ...have been wondering when I register to paypal? The email sound as below:-

Dear valued PayPal® member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. To update your PayPal® records click on the following link: http://PAYPAL.com/cgi-bin/webscr.3011

Thank You.

PayPal® Service Department Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.


dhavie

Replying to [dhavie]:
I used to received paypal, But i cancel credit card because of i got fraud on credit card too and i got my debit cleaned. Just delete junk emails.
Never renew if u dont' want to.

Quoting from [supraguy]:


I know these scams have been around a long time but lately we have been receiving an increasing number of them, and we wanted to alert the ebay community. Since most regular ebay users have a paypal account this information may be very valuable. It will present itself in a very official email of the receipt of a paypal payment from your account. When you open it , a very authentic looking paypal statement will appear. It will be for an item that you havent bought or even looked at, and will be for a more than nominal amount. On this invoice there will be a button that states if you did not pay for this item click here, on the premise that you will be opening a dispute. The next page you will see will be a VERY authentic looking paypal login page-very familiar to all paypal users. After entering account, password and login button , you will land on an empty link and you may even backscreen and make another attempt.What you have essentially just done is furnish an unscrupulous individual with access to your paypal account and all banking items that may be linked to it, including a wealth of personal information. If you indeed fall into this trap you must immediately change your password. In doing this make sure you login with the link that is available on the left column of your my ebay page, as this is probably your most secure link. You should always access your paypal account from your ebay page.Keep in mind that these type of scams are very hard to detect and for the most part are originating outside the US, from cybercafes and untraceable IP addresses.

by carcomusa

The best thing is to never follow a link in an email page.  Always go directly to the site.  The other thing is that when you get off of Paypal is that you close your browser window.  If you access ebay again with out closing the window you leave yourself open to reverse coding of your account info.  Closing the browser window is not only the best thing while using PayPal but even if your checking your own banking account.  Always signout of your account and then close the browser window.

Ranger 

Replying to [Ranger]:
I know about it
But thank

Replying to [dhavie]: This message you have is undoubtedly spoof.i.e. fake and not from paypal. I have had these as well and reported them to paypal. they have confirmed it is a spoof/ Apparently the give away is that quite often the scammers don't know your name, so they have Dear paypal user or similar. By the way this proves a good reason noy to have you name within your e mail address!! Anyway, paypal and e bay have stated that they don't need to update files or ask these questions as their computer system is more than capable of handling and organising accounts. So beware. Use paypal carefully, it can be a handy tool, but be careful who you trust. No matter what the media has been in the past and now, there are always people who will take advantage when they can and rob you without any consideration.

Replying to [supraguy]: I just deleted an eMail received from paypal. When I opened it, it said some like "This is a newsletter". Did look ok to me. Days later I found out, that my DNS was switched from my standard gateway to an IP-Address which I never have given in when setting up my network.
What it did was, when ever I opened the paypal website from my favorites my browser opended a false paypal website and with it gave all paypal account information to the people who made the false paypal site. It took me an hour to find out what is going on.
There are many paypal phisher

Quoting from [detronic]:


Replying to [supraguy]: I just deleted an eMail received from paypal. When I opened it, it said some like "This is a newsletter". Did look ok to me. Days later I found out, that my DNS was switched from my standard gateway to an IP-Address which I never have given in when setting up my network.

What it did was, when ever I opened the paypal website from my favorites my browser opended a false paypal website and with it gave all paypal account information to the people who made the false paypal site. It took me an hour to find out what is going on.

There are many paypal phisher

This is another good topic for PayPal or even opening up an unsolicited email.  Never ever open up an unsolicited email and never click on a link in an email.  At the most all you want to do is to make sure that your firewall is up and running and only follow the link to the URL by typing it in your browser.  The an example is http://www.paypal.com never type in the letters or the numbers following the CTLD ie .com, .net, .edu, ect ect.... typing in more is request from your browser to exchange further information.  Depending on your firewall setup it may allow the communication between phising site and your computer.  It may as well allow your system to be compromised in the way Detronic has stated. and allow a trojan called back orffice to be placed on your computer.  In this event everytime you open the PayPal or any banking institution site your information including password could be re-directed.

Ranger