| |
29th Sep 2006, 11:13 AM
| #1 (permalink) |
| WhAtSuPdOc  Join Date: 22 Nov 2002 Location: Any place that have COM with NET
Posts: 2,833
Reputation: 828   Rep Power: 18 |  Paypal FAKE !!!! Hi everyone  just like to share some experience here with you all. I never do any international transaction before thru Paypal as i do not have the accout also and here is what i got. Last week one fellow like to buy my item from e-bay where i post it there. So after confirm all the price and shipment cost, she said she able to pay me from Paypal to my local HSBC account  , at that time i feel that is not right. OK that fine, i pass her my account number which i think is ok  and see what she can do. After one day, i receive this fake e-mail from Paypal which by right paypal normally will not send any letter. So i wonder how come, and i check this with Dr. Adrian  and confirm this is fake. My main point here is hope people never do any transaction like this will not get cheated by those fake Paypal email.  (you can read the attachment and enjoy thier "rules" and "good english") 
__________________ Elton Tan IBM ThinkPad R60 AMD Barton 2500+ Abit NF7-S V(2.0) Corsair 256MBX2 PC3200 Seagate SATA 80GB Radeon 9200 SE 128MB  Altec Lansing ACS 56 Sony Clie TH-55  |
|  |
| SPONSOR |
|
29th Sep 2006, 12:41 PM
| #3 (permalink) |
| "Little" Devil  Join Date: 8 Apr 2004 Location: On the "throne"
Posts: 14,744
Reputation: 4681 Rep Power: 66 | Yea, I get tons of paypal and ebay spoofs. Easiest way to know is they never ask u to confirm or reactivate your account and you can view the email source and check where the hotlinks go (not whats typed in the email.)
__________________ Intel SLAPL 4.3GHz @ 1.35v : 2x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066 : Asus P5K Premium : WD RE3 250GB x2 RAID 0 : 3ware 9650SE-2LP : G92 8800GTS 512mb 820MHz Core : XFi Platinum : Silverstone OP650 : Silverstone TJ-07 : Dtek FuZion CPU : Swiftech MCW60 : MCP655 : Thermochill PA120.3 w Scythe Ultra Kaze CPU-Z: SLAPL : SLA9U : FX-55 : DDR 600 : VX www.techarp.com PsYkHoTiK's Meanderings |
| |
|
29th Sep 2006, 12:53 PM
| #4 (permalink) |
| Active  Join Date: 3 Jun 2005
Posts: 591
Reputation: 583 Rep Power: 10 | I have a PayPal account and use it to send money for online purchases. The point here is.... You cannot send money through PayPal to a local bank account. Someone sends money into you PayPal account and you withdraw it into a bank account. Malaysian PayPal accounts CANNOT withdraw into a local bank. You can only withdraw into a US bank account (applies to M'sia and other countries under the same category) IMMEDIATELY after any transaction you will receive a transaction receipt. And PayPal does not require knowledge of your local bank a/c number.. Also, one interesting thing to note, PayPal has just moved their Customer Service HQ for non-US accounts to Singapore... beginning August/Sept I think. I've been using PayPal for a very long time now.. with no problems. |
|
| |
|
29th Sep 2006, 03:56 PM
| #5 (permalink) |
| Newbie  Join Date: 5 Apr 2004
Posts: 6
Reputation: 0  Rep Power: 0 |  06.09.29 try forwarding that obvious phishing thieft email to paypal and see for yourself how much they (paypal) refuses to do anything about finding or prosecuting the people using the paypal name and images to steal your account information! |
|
| |
|
29th Sep 2006, 05:26 PM
| #6 (permalink) | |
| Active Join Date: 3 Jun 2005
Posts: 591
Reputation: 583 Rep Power: 10 | Quote:
The website is a legal site. It just got hijacked by a PayPal phishing site. PayPal takes this very seriously. They may not reply directly to you or acknowledge your help all the time but they do take these things seriously. And then there's the problem where there's too many phishing sites. So you can't really blame PayPal. It's not that they like these things you know.. P/S: I don't work for PayPal btw. | |
|
| |
|
30th Sep 2006, 06:12 AM
| #7 (permalink) |
| "Little" Devil Join Date: 8 Apr 2004 Location: On the "throne"
Posts: 14,744
Reputation: 4681 Rep Power: 66 | Yea, ebay and paypal really clamp down on these kinda things.
__________________ Intel SLAPL 4.3GHz @ 1.35v : 2x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066 : Asus P5K Premium : WD RE3 250GB x2 RAID 0 : 3ware 9650SE-2LP : G92 8800GTS 512mb 820MHz Core : XFi Platinum : Silverstone OP650 : Silverstone TJ-07 : Dtek FuZion CPU : Swiftech MCW60 : MCP655 : Thermochill PA120.3 w Scythe Ultra Kaze CPU-Z: SLAPL : SLA9U : FX-55 : DDR 600 : VX www.techarp.com PsYkHoTiK's Meanderings |
|
| |
|
12th Oct 2006, 04:19 PM
| #8 (permalink) |
| Da Boss Join Date: 10 Oct 2002 Location: In front of my ASUS F8V notebook!
Posts: 33,118
Reputation: 3730 Rep Power: 78 | The key word here is to be wary. Lots of phishers and scammers around.
__________________ Dr. Adrian Wong Tech ARP | Blog @ Tech ARP | The Free Trade Zone DYKT : The only offshore account I have is at the sand bank? We need PROGRAMMERS and TECHNICAL WRITERS! Contact us if you are a hot shot programmer or technical writer! My items for sale : 50x SD Card | Memory Stick PRO | Cyclone Energy Saver | Seiko SS watch | Tiger/Carlsberg beer jugs | Travel Speakers | Motorola V600 | Nokia N90 SOLD! | New Lowepro Mini Trekker AW Other items for sale @ the FTZ : Zalman CNPS9500 LED @ $20 | Zalman CNPS7700 Cu @ $20 | Zalman CNPS7000 Cu @ $20 | Swarovski bracelet watches | Dell 17" LCD | Hi-Fi speakers | English DIVX movies | HP LaserJet toners! | Office chairs |
|
| |
 |
| Thread Tools | |
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| EBay's PayPal to buy VeriSign unit for $370 mln! | Dashken | News | 2 | 11th Oct 2005 05:52 PM |
| PayPal Blocks Hurricane Relief Funds! | Dashken | News | 1 | 7th Sep 2005 02:43 PM |
