Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:50:37 -0500
Reply-To: rsf <feller@CARBONCOW.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: rsf <feller@CARBONCOW.COM>
Subject: Re: PayPal Scam phising/spoofs (NVC)
In-Reply-To: <297.5b6571d.31277243@aol.com>
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NOT using paypals because someone else is scamming is strange logic IMHO. Do
you not use cash because someone makes counterfeit that could wind up in
your pocket and cost you money if found? Simply being an educated consumer
and slowing down enough to determine if something seems logical (why would
then send me something requesting my username/password?) and the URL of the
pages are correct. If there is truly a concern always going in the front
door of the main URL www.paypals.com makes sense. I've been using paypals
since day one with no concerns. The biggest concerns are goofy
buyers/sellers that don't understand the system and tell me things like use
all caps when entering email addresses and such!
All you simply have to do when you get something that looks suspicious is
look at the URL the website sends you to. You will always see it takes you
to some third world country when you click on the link that tells you to
enter your username/password.
And for those sellers that gripe that it costs money to sell simply mark up
your item a few percent so you can sleep at night. The buyer (such as me)
would rather know that a private seller is using a legitimate system such as
Paypals rather then sending certified checks and money orders which are
prone to bigger scams and delay shipping for weeks at times!
But I still want to do business with you Chris
IMHO
Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
JordanVw@AOL.COM
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:39 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: PayPal Scam phising/spoofs (NVC)
i just recieved another email from "paypal".. these scam emails are
realistic, this particular one actually used my full name... i forwarded
it to
spoof@paypal.com, they do nothing about it...just send a form automated
letter
reply..saying its a spoof...who know is anyone actually there looked at it
or
not. the tricky thing is that it looks so real, there is no way to tell
if
its real or fake..copy and pasting the link provided sent me to a official
looking "paypal" page with official looking paypal graphics..where they were
requesting my password, etc... even the links on the page took you to
actual
paypal links.. it was so well done that its hard to distinguish real from
fake..
this is another reason i dont use paypal..
chris
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