Phishing?

hawgcatcher · 02-27-2007, 02:48 PM

Am I the only one that gets emails that say my paypal account and my ebay account are going to be suspended unless I fix my information? Hardly a day goes by without something coming in. Since I don't have these accounts, I don't even answer them but I worry that sometime, one of my accounts will try to send a message and I will delete it.

Is there any place that I can forward these emails to that even bother to check them out?

Cool Texan · 02-27-2007, 02:52 PM

Just delete them without worry. Or, if you reallly want to know safely...just hover your mouse pointer thing (sorry for the technical language) over the link/button that they want you to click....you should be able to see the address of it. It wont be to Ebay.com or Paypal.com.

Don Becker · 02-27-2007, 04:02 PM

ebay has this covered on their site. I get them occasionally. You can forward them to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com respectively. Don't open any attachments. Review what ebay says about phishing. Don't try to go to your account thry the e-mail, go directly to your account through your server - - - if there is a real message, it will be there for you to read. Don

DAB · 02-27-2007, 05:20 PM

Scam to get your info. I got one from ebay and I aint never used ebay so I knew it was a scam, same with the pay pal one.
DAB

Gus Orviston · 02-27-2007, 05:34 PM

Phishing now has taken over all malicious type attacks,, the rate of worms and virii being released have gone down and the attackers have shifted to a profitable form of computer attacks with phishing.

Vista is to have improved on the authentication of sites (eg conteracting phishing) And there is a feature in IE 7 that is suppose to help.. BUt dang it was so slow I turned it off. Suppose to be fast in Vista.

I am fine with turning it off because I do nothing on the web if I am sent email. plain and simple. If I don't initiate it.. I won't do it. I send the spoofs to ebay and paypal as well.. and will always call my bank or CC before engaging in some online account update. As for banks that I don't do biz with .. I ignore.

gus

24 on/ 48 off · 02-27-2007, 06:20 PM

I look at it this way. EVERY single one of those financial organizations have my mailing address on file when I signed up. If they really want to get ahold of me, I would be happy to respond to any snail-mail inquiry.

--spud--

lentz · 02-27-2007, 06:29 PM

My wife fell for one of these e-mails. Needless to say, after a few minutes she relized her mistake. She had to call the bank, credit fraud reporting, and bunch of other places. We never had any"bad" thing come of it but she did contact paypal and they told her that they wouldn't need to get her "updated" info because they have everything that they would need already.

Duckwheat · 02-27-2007, 07:17 PM

Tons of them. It's sort of like a STD. Probably hanging out in the wrong places.

Duckwheat

anglingaddict · 02-27-2007, 07:42 PM

Just got one Sunday. Looked VERY official from eBay but yet went against everything they say they won't do!

I just forwarded it on to eBay's spoof dept. so they could earn their pay.

They seem to come in spurts.

MattPark · 02-27-2007, 09:43 PM

My favorite ones are "from" the banks that don't exist, and 50% of the "engrish" is spelled incorrectly. Always good for a laugh.

Fish Mode · 02-27-2007, 09:47 PM

OHhhhhh...I thought this thread was about "phishing," you know, the kind with rod and reel? Ehhh, what do I know.

Fish Mode

hawgcatcher · 02-28-2007, 02:18 PM

Thanks for the come backs. I will try that spoof ones. It is too bad we cannot send these people to somewhere where there is no internet. Like maybe Mars.

Seefood Man · 03-01-2007, 07:23 AM

I LONG for the day when they start putting away these people that try to do this and the ones that make up worms and viruses.
They are right there with the meth heads

I know many are outside out country's reaches, but at least lets make an example of the ones here.

Empty Pockets · 03-01-2007, 06:52 PM

every now and then I'll respond to these phishing emails, but I give them bogus info (either that or a password that I couldn't print on this family-friendly site). This is my version of spamming the spammers.

It might be fun to write a program to respond 10,000 times and really shut them down.

Pelhament · 03-02-2007, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by hawgcatcher

but I worry that sometime, one of my accounts will try to send a message and I will delete it.

I wouldn't worry about this, most companies will not request this information in this manner, and if they did and you did not response. They would try and contact you some other way... by phone or mail or such.