Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Your help is desperately needed

date posted 11th February 2008 14:58



Dom Latter wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008 15:40:48 Adam Reynolds wrote:
>
>> A scam I think. Please prove me wrong.
>>
>
> Steven's been posting here for a while. A quick scan of his posts shows him
> contributing answers as well asking for advice. So I figure it for a genuine
> post from a list member, and some sympathy is in order, even if you think
> that soliciting for financial contributions is an inappropriate use of the
> list.
>
>
The problem is as much the url he provided. You'll notice
www.beyonds.com embedded inside it which is basically a search landing
page. If somebody genuinely had such an appeal going, then I'd expect
something of a page on a reputable website. To go directly to a paypal
payment page with this url embedded into the url is not good.

For reference here it is:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=paypal%40beyondss%2ecom&item_name=Help%20Darina%20beat%20Cancer&page_style=PayPal&no_shipping=1&return=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ebeyondss%2ecom%2fppsuccess%2ephp&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=GBP&lc=GB&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8


So yes, this is as far as I can determine still a scam. I may be wrong
but nothing so far indicates otherwise and remember that this sort of
scam needs a tragic element to it to stop you looking too deeply.

Adam