I got one on Friday supposedly from PayPal. It said it was a random
security check and I needed to go the the link they provided. The site
the link went to included an informational form to fill out which
included every possible piece of info you can imagine. Social security
and driver license numbers, bank account and routing numbers, and of
course credit card numbers. Stuff that even the real PayPal never asks
for when signing up.
I opened a second browser window and compared this site to the real
PayPal, and everything was identical.
I e mailed PayPal to advise them and have not had a response yet.
The thought of people falling for this and providing such information
is scary.
Craig
On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:34:30 -0500, you wrote:
>I keep getting messages saying that eBay has had trouble verifying my
>credit card, and that I must reconfirm my credit card info.
>
>The first ones started about a month ago. They had all the look and feel
>of eBay, so I clicked on the link that was posted in the email, and when
>I got to the site, I noticed that the url was
>www.cancelations.com/eBay/index.html or something like that. The "eBay"
>was not in the site name. I became suspicious and canceled out of it.
>
>The more recent ones have much more realistic (and complicated urls),
>and they seem to know that I was at their site, and tell me how urgent
>it is that I reconfirm my credit card info.
>
>I took the link again, and again was at a site that looked very much
>like eBay -- all the eBay links worked and took me to various eBay
>pages. It asked me to login to eBay, so I did, but with a bogus
>password. Not to my surprise, the bogus password worked just fine.
>
>These guys are getting good at this.
>
>Don Malling
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