Quick Paypal Spoof Warning

raptorman

I have just recieved a email purporting to be from paypal. The email has a competition to text a penny to win a porsche and also mentions the 'children in need' charity.

I forwarded it to spoof@paypal who confirmed that this email is not genuine.

Just wanted to warn others as the email itself looks very professional, just like paypal would send.

skintarooney

OMG I got this email too, I opened it thinking it was genuine. Do you think that there could have been some kind of spyware (sorry I'm not technical!) on there or are they hoping people will text them???

Got me worried now!!

Creosote

If you actually go to the paypal.co.uk website there is a competition to win a porsche for children in need, https://www.paypal.com/uk/porsche but as of yet i haven't received this email.

Moglex

raptorman wrote:

I have just recieved a email purporting to be from paypal. The email has a competition to text a penny to win a porsche and also mentions the 'children in need' charity.

I forwarded it to spoof@paypal who confirmed that this email is not genuine.

Just wanted to warn others as the email itself looks very professional, just like paypal would send.

Strange, as my browser says that the target URL's present in the email resolve to the same IP address as those in legitimate pp emails I have received for various reasons.

frivolous_fay

Usually my spam filter is pretty good at picking up fake stuff... and it ignored this one. Looked ok to me, honestly, and I'm not convinced it's a scam.

When you click the link you go to a paypal.com link so I think someone on the spoof department was just being a bit thick about this one.

frivolous_fay

Oh, here's fuel to the fire...

http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?messageID=1201338310&forumID=7#1201338310

mrsb_5

I got it too and forwarded it to spoof@paypal.com and they replied almost instantly saying it was a spoof

mrsb_5

oops just read the above post lol

Moglex

Unless there is more than one of these floating around, they're talking through their bottoms.

The links definitely resolve to the paypal site.

Don't forget that when you send these spoofs to pp they are not checked by a person, it's all done by computer. They've probably jut forgotten to load the signature for that email into the white-list database.

LULUBELLE_2

I got one of these - the rule of thumb is that if it addresses you by name, it's genuine; this addressed me by name, so I think it's fine.

soolin

Moglex wrote:

Unless there is more than one of these floating around, they're talking through their bottoms.

The links definitely resolve to the paypal site.

Don't forget that when you send these spoofs to pp they are not checked by a person, it's all done by computer. They've probably jut forgotten to load the signature for that email into the white-list database.

You are quite right moglex, they return everything as a spoof. I once sent them a copy of the paypal pyramid (the $3 one) that a seller sent me, just to complain it was unwanted spam. All I got back was the automated email telling me it was a fake and I should change all my passwords...Du'h, I wish they'd read their emails properly.

Soo