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FRAUD PAYPAL EMAIL SAMPLE: BE CAREFUL !!!!!

I have a Paypal account and I buy a lot of stuff from eBay. My account is connected to my Yahoo email; it used to be with my office email but sometimes our firewall treats Paypal emails as spam.
Anyway, I checked my Yahoo account yesterday and there was a notice that I sent payment of 395.85USD to someone for buying an Omega Constellation Watch (must've been a fake watch that one ). Scrolling down the message there was an area which asked if this transaction is not authorized; I should click on the Problem Resolution Center. I clicked on it and the website appeared which definitely looked like Paypal. It asked me to log in; which I did. The next step was that it asked for my First Name, Last Name, Credit Card info, etc. This actually struck me as being strange. Since I had a Paypal account, logging in automatically tells the website who I am and what my personal details are.
What I did was immediately logged out. I then logged in again and changed my password and secret question (when you forget your password this one prompts you). Logged out again, then logged in and checked my history or activity. It showed that there was no purchase done on the said date (when I supposedly bought a watch). I forwarded the suspect email to: 'sp[email protected]' for them to clarify and investigate for me. I also checked with my credit card company and thankfully they said that there was no activity related to the case I described.
This morning I checked my Yahoo email and Paypal responded saying that they have verified the email to be a fake. The first point is that Paypal will never address you as "Dear Member or Dear Paypal Member". The second point is that there was a difference in the URL used by the fraud link. For those of you who use Paypal; please take some time off and read a little more on this. There's a "Contact Us" section, from there you can type "Fraud" in the search field. A topic saying "How do I differentiate between a fake and authentic email from Paypal" (or something like that).
Lastly, Paypal said that if I did fill out the information requested by the fraud URL; chances are my credit card info would have been obtained and who knows what can happen. I'm sending you a copy of the email I received. PLEASE TREAT THIS AS REFERENCE ONLY. DO NOT COPY OR CLICK ON ANY LINKS.
Cheers
Rob
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PayPal <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject:
Your payment has been sent to [email protected]
Date:
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:20:01 -0700
Dear PayPal Member,
This email confirms that you have paid OMEGAMOVE ([email protected]) $395.85 USD using PayPal.
This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL OMEGAMOVE".
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PayPal Shopping Cart Contents
Item Name:
Omega Constellation Men Watch - mint
Quantity:
1
Total:
$380.85 USD
Cart Subtotal:
$380.85 USD
Sales Tax:
$15.00 USD
Cart Total:
$395.85 USD
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Shipping Information
Shipping Info:
James Dickinson
184 Hadley Dr.
Chicago, IL 60614
United States
Address Status:
Unconfirmed
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If you haven't authorized this charge, click the link below to cancel the payment and get a full refund.
Dispute Transaction
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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

First: check on which domain you are checked.
Most fraud email don't link to real sites.
However: you see good link for example http://www.paypal.com/authorize.html in email, but when you hover over the link, below your good email client you can see real link in status bar, for example http://paypal.proof.nu/auth/login.php or so. Or strange ipnumber http://12.31.78.2/paypal/auth.html.
(links are not real - just for example, no need to clicking!!!!)
Yes, don't look blindly on words on the email. Look always behind the emails: which real links are here used? Is there not extra words used, is grammar okay, and looks altijd first on official sites if there is indeed happens. If there is indeed such information available then you can look further. If there is warning about fake emails, trash the email immediately or forward to paypal site for examining fraud links.
Such strange links are not linked to www.paypal.com. That is why you must always check the real links where you going to.
And when the fraud email links real to www.paypal.com site, then is fraud email useless.
Full image fraud emails are almost fake. You can always trash them.

Similar thing happened to me with an Amazon spoof site. Of course, the email was in HTML and the link redirected me to another site that asked me to sign in and then give credit card details. It looked very convincing indeed. This was the first time I'd ever received such a thing and it nearly caught me off guard but luckily I realised at the last moment that it was illegal 'phishing' activity. I'm not sure who to report this to though, Amazon, or a more authorative body like the police? See the attached images for what the site/email looked like.
Regards,
Neil.

thanks for the info

PayPal Example
mrdummy - You had some great points.
I just came across an interesting example of a PayPal fraud email.
The email had this from header...
"From: [email protected] ([email protected]) "
If you look at the domain name... [email protected] "ACCOUNTS-PAYPAL.COM", you can see that it's not from paypal.com. That's the best way to determine whether or not it's spam email.
GMail does a great job of helping you determine this. This email wouldn't have even showed up in your spam box since GMail wouldn't have accepted it because it's claiming to be from "paypal.com" and it's actually from "accounts-paypal.com".
Other good email fraud tips.
GMail will also put a little key next to the sender's name if it is a legitamate email... atleast in PayPal's case.

App to categorize invoice

Hello to everyone,
i'am tryng to find an application to categorize the invoice of my supplier when i receive them, i like to shot a picture of the invoice and categorize the with some other infos like the expiration date of the invoice the price and some other... this apps is only on my dream ?
(to anyone can help me a large italian gelato for free in my shop in the center of Rome )

Sending SMS to phone numbers incl brackets ()

Hi all,
With my HTC Touch Pro 2 T7373 ROM Version 2.07.404.1 (80303) NLD (Dutch) it isn't possible to sent SMS to phone numbers in international format which including brackets ().
E.g. +31 (0)20 123 45 67 is accepted for phone calls but not for SMS. To send an SMS to this number only this format is accepted: +31 20 123 45 67.
I have to change more than 800 mobile numbers in my contact database for this. And it's annoying that I am losing now the prefix numbers. For NL it's always a "0" but that differs per country. So if I have to provide somebody with a tel number out of my (Outlook) contact database I can't give him/her the complete number.
It should be great if somebody can provide me with a solution for this.
Cheers,
Maurice

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[APP][4.0+][INDIA] TextVext: Free Unl. SMS with Unl. Custom Sender ID

Hello Indians,
Have you ever wondered! how PAYTM send us SMS in form of DM-IPAYTM!!!
Know How!
TextVext is APP use to Send SMS in form of DM-YOURNAME For Ex. JAGJEET, MAYANK, KAVITA etc.
APP is Fantastic, let's head into features
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Instruction to Use APP >
Download App and Login/Sign-Up.
Click on Menu at bottom right.
Click on Sender ID and enter Your desired 6 character Sender ID(For ex. PRATIK, KAVITA, TECHNO etc)
Approval of Sender ID will take approx. 1 hour, meanwhile You can use default sender ID.
Now What Send SMS and Enjoy
Custom Sender ID & SMS Instruction >
Use Promtional SMS for Hi & Hello and promoting Loan, Product, Tariff, blog Post etc.
Use Transactional SMS in case of sending Alert type SMS like OTP & Transaction SMS. Misuse of Transactional SMS can Casue problem to USer Who send SMS. Use Transactional SMS wisley
Sender ID must be 6 Char. not include any Symbols and (.)
Sender ID Approval Take time(1-2 Hours) If your sender ID won't get approved. it means it is not appropriate.
Abusive content in SMS is not allowed.
NOTE:
***** You are the only one who are responsible for your sent SMS.
**** Bad & Abusive Word from user will BAN the user and in furthur Developers have Right to Punish them.
*** Don't Misuse the APP
** Bad and Abusive Sender ID will not approve.
* Stay safe, use Safely.
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