M B
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I'm not even a game nut.:angry::angry: It freaked me out at first. But nothing came of it...yet. Yet, it did come address to my name.
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I've Been Spoofed
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Jeff C
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Yeah, I get those about once a month. I look at it, then open a new window and go to my PayPal account, and when I see nothing's happened, I foward to [email protected].
Johnny O
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I got called last week my my credit card company, they detected a bogus charge of over $1000. I said "Nope, wasn't me."
Kevin Palmer
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As Jeff pointed out. DO NOT CLICK ON THE INCLUDED LINK....
Simply open your REAL paypal account to see if there are any charges you did not authorize. More than likely not. If so, contact paypal thru their normal link, nothing sent to you via email...
Simply open your REAL paypal account to see if there are any charges you did not authorize. More than likely not. If so, contact paypal thru their normal link, nothing sent to you via email...
I get a lot of PayPal spoofs. Clicking on the link is not problem. It will take you to a bogus PayPal log-in screen. As that point, DO NOT LOG IN USING YOUR REAL USER-ID AND PASSWORD. That's what they want you to do, They want to finded out your PayPal User-ID and Password, and they have access your account and your bank account, credit card numbers, etc.
I like to log in with a bogus UserID and password. The fact that it always accepts what ever I key quickly tells me that it's a bogus email.
If the email addressed you by name, then it would appear that it is someone who knows you, or has done business with you via PayPal and knows your name and knows you have a PayPal account. If you send somebody money via PayPal, the email to Payee identifies who sent the money by name. That is the full name registered with PayPal.
...Rich
I like to log in with a bogus UserID and password. The fact that it always accepts what ever I key quickly tells me that it's a bogus email.
If the email addressed you by name, then it would appear that it is someone who knows you, or has done business with you via PayPal and knows your name and knows you have a PayPal account. If you send somebody money via PayPal, the email to Payee identifies who sent the money by name. That is the full name registered with PayPal.
...Rich
Todd Cloutier
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A discussion of this type of Paypal Phish:
Fer Echegaray
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I get them EVERY day, and against better advice, I do click on the link and put my account info:
User: F***k U
Password: Mother*uc**r
User: F***k U
Password: Mother*uc**r
Fer Echegaray
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And remember that paypal addresses ALWAYS start with https://www.paypal.com, note the 's' for secure layer... but links can be deceiving, the link shows the https, but goes to another place, so check your URL window:
<a href="http://mysporttrac.com">https://www.paypal.com</a>
<a href="http://mysporttrac.com">https://www.paypal.com</a>
Casey B
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Don't always rely on the "s" in https. Anyone can set up a website with ssl making it a secure exchange. The problem is security while on their server and are they trustworthy.
Thomas Rogers
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Regarding the "check your URL window" advice, please note (also posted this info to Coastiejoe's Chase email spoof)...
Many of these "phishing" emails use a vulnerability in older versions of Internet Explorer that allows the URL in the address bar to be overwritten by the hacker's website to make it LOOK like you have gone to a legit site.
The following link has information on this and a link to a TEST that allows you to test your browser to see if it is vulnerable in this way. You can trust this link:
Many of these "phishing" emails use a vulnerability in older versions of Internet Explorer that allows the URL in the address bar to be overwritten by the hacker's website to make it LOOK like you have gone to a legit site.
The following link has information on this and a link to a TEST that allows you to test your browser to see if it is vulnerable in this way. You can trust this link:
Fer Echegaray
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One more reason to use Firefox
M B
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I didn't click anything and I did forward it to Paypal. I checked my other email address and got the same thing. So I knew it was a spoof.
Fer,
FireFox has it's own vulnerabilities. It was immune for a while until the hackers figured out people were using it because it sidesteped all the holes in IE. Now FireFox has a bunch of holes in it as well.
The only reason Microsoft's IE has so many security breaches, is due to it's popularity. The more popular a particular browser, or operating system becomes the more people there are hacking it.
...Rich
FireFox has it's own vulnerabilities. It was immune for a while until the hackers figured out people were using it because it sidesteped all the holes in IE. Now FireFox has a bunch of holes in it as well.
The only reason Microsoft's IE has so many security breaches, is due to it's popularity. The more popular a particular browser, or operating system becomes the more people there are hacking it.
...Rich
Evan P
Member
With all due respect, who cares about the whys and wherefores of IE's (or windoze in general) numerous vulnerabilties? IMHO the only thing that matters is that the holes do exist with more popping up quite regularly. :wacko:
EvenP,
All browsers and operating systems have holes an vulnerabilities. If it's not a popular system, most hackers don't know or care about ii. Windows is without a doubt the most populare operating system, and IE is the most previlant browser.
If you think there are any browsers that are immune to getting hacked, it's not because there are no holes or vulnerabilities, but only because the hackers can exploit IE and know there are millions if not billions of PC's out there to attack. Why spend all your time hacking a browser or operating system that only a few hundred thousand people may use, and your odds of finding someone on the web that uses it are pretty slim.
...Rich
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All browsers and operating systems have holes an vulnerabilities. If it's not a popular system, most hackers don't know or care about ii. Windows is without a doubt the most populare operating system, and IE is the most previlant browser.
If you think there are any browsers that are immune to getting hacked, it's not because there are no holes or vulnerabilities, but only because the hackers can exploit IE and know there are millions if not billions of PC's out there to attack. Why spend all your time hacking a browser or operating system that only a few hundred thousand people may use, and your odds of finding someone on the web that uses it are pretty slim.
...Rich
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Evan P
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I totally understand what you're saying from the hackers perspective of wanting to affect a maximum number of users.
All I'm saying is that if my system were compromised due to an exploit in IE and/or windows, I don't think I'd be all that concerned with why there are so many holes in IE, but rather what can I do in the future to better protect myself. If that meant moving to a less popular browser then so be it. At the end of the day it wouldn't matter to me that perhaps one of the reasons why the less popular browser is more secure is because fewer hackers target it; to me that's a good thing.
All I'm saying is that if my system were compromised due to an exploit in IE and/or windows, I don't think I'd be all that concerned with why there are so many holes in IE, but rather what can I do in the future to better protect myself. If that meant moving to a less popular browser then so be it. At the end of the day it wouldn't matter to me that perhaps one of the reasons why the less popular browser is more secure is because fewer hackers target it; to me that's a good thing.
