Re-Activate your Paypal! is this a con?

mick_vandick

Me too Peter, i get several a day!
Just looked at a proper email from Paypal and as well as putting your full name they also add your postcode, todays date and your email address in a little box. So just watch out for this box!

• Today’s date:
01/05/2011

• Your email address:
xxxxx@xxxx.xom

• Your postcode:
XXX XXX

POPPYOSCAR

I had one of these from 'Paypal' the other day confirming my payment to Skype and asking me to click on a link if I had not authorised this payment.It looked very genuine at first glance but it obviously was not.

As someone said Paypal will always address you by name, but even then I would still be wary.

meritaten

I have paypal and they DONT send you emails asking you to reactivate your account! its a scam.

trukdiver

The one I got came from "PayPal[no-reply@paypal.com]' instead of "[EMAIL="no-reply@paypal.com"]no-reply@paypal.com[/EMAIL]". It also gave my name in lower case and had the time and date on it. The real giveaway was the attached PDF. I wouldn't be surprised if people were taken in by it.

mick_vandick wrote: »

Me too Peter, i get several a day!
Just looked at a proper email from Paypal and as well as putting your full name they also add your postcode, todays date and your email address in a little box. So just watch out for this box!

• Today’s date:
01/05/2011

• Your email address:
[EMAIL="xxxxx@xxxx.xom"]xxxxx@xxxx.xom[/EMAIL]

• Your postcode:
XXX XXX

dealer_wins

mick_vandick wrote: »

Its worth remembering that Paypal will ALWAYS start a genuine email with your name, they will never address it to sir/madam or just nothing.

I recently had a genuine email from them which was addressed "dear Sir"

It beggers belief really.

kazwookie

I've had spam recently from 'paypal' 'Lloyds tsb' 'HSBC' 'Halifax' all to my 2nd email account, which I NEVER use for banks etc, half of the companies mentioned I don't even have accounts with.

I just delete them.

NEVER EVER click on any links in these emails, always go the direct route.

Krystaltips

In this day and age, with so much warning about such cons, it's difficult believe people actually get taken in by this kind of thing...

asbokid

Krystaltips wrote: »

In this day and age, with so much warning about such cons, it's difficult believe people actually get taken in by this kind of thing...

Even more worrying is that the banking authorities are doing so little about it.

I once reported a scam to Lloyds TSB Group..

I gave Lloyds all the details of the phishing site, the IP address of the machine that was hosting the phony log-on web page, details of the form processing scripts that were harvesting our personal banking ID, etcetera.

I never heard anything from Lloyds. No "thank you" for my trouble, not even an acknowledgement, nothing.

A few weeks later, I checked to see whether the phishing site was still up and running, and sure enough, it was indeed. Still busily harvesting our banking IDs!!

Trying to be charitable, I figured that the phishing site was left in situ as a honeytrap; that the site was being monitored in the hope of catching the perpetrators when they returned, but in reality I doubt it.

Although the hacking side of the scam is within the capabilities of teenaged script kiddies, the laundering of the phished money remains a sophisticated crime that requires expertise in the banking industry to avoid detection.

Techhead_2

dealer_wins wrote: »

I recently had a genuine email from them which was addressed "dear Sir"

It beggers belief really.

Yes, its been widely reported that Paypal sometimes act in a way that leaves customers more susceptible to phishing etc.

For example, emails which break their own guidelines (click this link etc), the convoluted suspension/re-activated process (which involves giving out personal information) and the lack of clear support process.

AnnieRD

I'm trying to pay for items via PayPal, but before I get to the checkout screen, I'm getting a dubious message along the lines of, they are performing regular maintenance of security measures & need my full card no & my full bank account no,!How do I find out if this is indeed dodgy?