Re: FN-FORUM: Convincing PayPal phishing emails, be on your guard

date posted 28th January 2008 14:14

Another PayPal Scam

I got an email from a bloke wanting to buy some stuff we had for sale on a
classifieds site. He wanted to pay by PayPal. His original email was suspec=
t
as (not being racist or anything) he wrote in African.

It started, Solicitations my good friend... Bit like the Nigerian emails.

Anyway... I wrote back, and gave him the price and my PayPal account.

Next day a very convincing email arrives from PayPal saying the funds are
ready and in Escrow and will be released once shipping is confirmed via an
Airway bill. Bless him he even added =A3100 so I could ship to an address in
Nigeria.=20

Needless to say we stopped at that point. The email was actually from a
gmail account but all the logins went to the real PayPal site and the email
was as far as I could see perfect. Again, if yo are not looking for this
kind of thing it is easy to fall prey to these people.

R


On 28/1/08 14:34, "Sam M - www.wiredeyes.com" [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:

>=20
> Just thought I would mention that I have received a couple of fairly
> convincing phishing emails today purporting to be from PayPal, one tellin=
g my
> my account is about to be suspended and the other with an offer for somet=
hing
> or other. The reason I say "fairly convincing" is that they are in fairly=
well
> written English, have embedded images in the emails (Not just the log bu=
t
> even advert headers etc) making them look quite professional and they act=
ually
> look like how PayPal send emails.
>=20
> Obviously the links to "verify account" with html part went to the phishi=
ng
> page and one which was written as a PayPal URL in the email but the html =
part
> went to the phishing page.
>=20
> All in all probably some of the most convincing phishing emails I've seen=
. If
> I didn=E2=80=99t have such a suspicious personality they might have easily caug=
ht me
> out.
>=20
> Regards=20
> Sam Morgan=20