[South Florida DX Association] Identity Theft...eBay or PayPal or a Bank...

[Bill Marx]

For Your Information:

Recently I began receiving a series of emails from PayPal, eBay  My Bank and
other banks. All of them looked amazingly like the real thing. The PayPal
emails and eBay emails were perfect reproductions of the logo and looked
very authentic. They were all faked. They asked for me to check my
information or to go to the website and verify something or threaten that my
account has been tampered with. All were fake. Years ago I became familiar
with an email address for events exactly like this.

In every case Major Websites have an email address to use to send bogus or
suspicious emails to. Even AOL uses it as well as Bellsouth.

The email address is abuse at AOL.com or abuse at bellsouth.net . In the case of
eBay and PayPal you can use abuse at ebay.com or abuse at paypal.com  . It even
works with my bank but in those cases I phoned the offices to let them know
what had happened. In one case they referred me to their security
department.

If you receive an email from your bank or eBay or PayPal asking for
information and/or go to a clickable link they send or advise you that your
"Account Has Been Suspended", Do Not Click on anything! Instead...forward
the email to your provider or directly to eBay or PayPal. Those two actually
have another address you use and that is spoof at ebay.com or spoof at paypal.com
.
Good luck and I hope no one gets caught by these crooks. None of these
companies will ever ask you to go to a website to check out anything
regarding your account.
Bill