At 07:43 PM 3/7/03 -0800, Diane and Roland Dudley wrote:
>.... had recently bid on something on EBay and soon afterwards had
>received an e-mail saying that there was some problem with his credit card
>verification and could he visit the EBay site and re-submit his credit
>card information. The message included a supposed link to EBay where he
>could re-enter his credit card number, etc. Turns out this was a fake
>link to some credit card scammer's site. ....
I have received a few messages in the past week with similar notes about a
paypal account, and request to submit my charge card number for
verification. I spotted the scam right off, because each one was addressed
to an alias e-mail address on our club web site that did not have a paypal
account.
I never clicked the response button. I simply forwarded each message with
complete expanded headers to abuse@paypal.com. I got back an
acknowledgement message (automated I presume) thanking me for the notice,
and saying that they would be investigating, and advising me of several
things I should do immediately if I had given out any personal information
(which I hadn't).
One of the notes from paypal said that they have an incentive program where
they pay a bounty (not in those exact words) for new accounts being
opened. This sort of "implied" that I might expect that some devious party
might be soliciting my information for the purpose of opening a paypal
account in my name to collect the finder's fee. Sounded lame to me, but I
wasn't biting anyway.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://MGAguru.com
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