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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
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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.
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I can't find any watch faces that I have purchased.
When I click on receipt it says I have no items.
I only noticed this when I went to update a watch face and it asked me to pay.
I don't want to format my watch as then I won't have any watch faces at all and other than PayPal I don't have any proof of purchase.
Check your email history. You should have an email from [email protected] with a subject like "Samsung GALAXY Apps Purchase Receipt is provided".
It lists the name of the watch face and the developer in the email.
I don't have any emails but I do have PayPal receipts.
I still have the watch faces/apps on my watch but I can't update them without being charged again.
I don't have any apps or watch faces in galaxy apps anymore. I thought maybe it's because I updated Samsung billing but I backdated the app and it made no difference.
I have Samsung A51 5g on Android 11. All my contacts are with country code. However when receiving a local call which is without country code, the phone does not show contact name when there is an incoming call. Any solution?
you using Contacts apps by Google? perhaps you modified it's setting like caller ID or phonetic name ...
ineedroot69 said:
you using Contacts apps by Google? perhaps you modified it's setting like caller ID or phonetic name ...
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Yes i do have google contacts app. Did not understand. Should I uninstall google contacts?
iamjinay said:
Yes i do have google contacts app. Did not understand. Should I uninstall google contacts?
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great decision to uninstall and reinstall it again but you need to make sure you backup all your contact or just automatically synch contact to your linked google account
ineedroot69 said:
great decision to uninstall and reinstall it again but you need to make sure you backup all your contact or just automatically synch contact to your linked google account
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still not working. basically the issue is that my contacts are stored with country code. However when i receive a local call, it is without country code and phone does not display the contact
iamjinay said:
still not working. basically the issue is that my contacts are stored with country code. However when i receive a local call, it is without country code and phone does not display the contact
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what do you mean not display the contact perhaps your did not give the contact name? how do our someone is calling when it don't display the contact this is confusing lmao
ineedroot69 said:
what do you mean not display the contact perhaps your did not give the contact name? how do our someone is calling when it don't display the contact this is confusing lmao
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My contact is stored as +852 XXXX XXXX (has hong kong country code). I am in Hong Kong and when there is incoming call, number is only XXXX XXXX (without country code +852). In this case, contact name does not display when there is incoming call. Only number XXXX XXXX is displayed
any other solution?
i found a solution... download another dialer... many dialers available on playstore
iamjinay said:
I have Samsung A51 5g on Android 11. All my contacts are with country code. However when receiving a local call which is without country code, the phone does not show contact name when there is an incoming call. Any solution?
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Hello, I got exactly the same issue as your!!
I also got a phone from Hong Kong, so Hong Kong Samsung version, plus most of my contact are saved with inficatif, for messaging app like WhatsApp.
As you described the issue, if any local phone call me, it only display the phone number, not the name of the contact, while the name and the number being saved in Contact app.
I tried to remove the indicatif of a contact and save it as it, this time the name is shown when I get a called, but in messaging app like WhatsApp, this test contact got no more name, only the number is shown in front of its chat. Any additional solution since ??
Thx