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

[Todd Coulter]

Bill,
   Thanks for the heads up. I just received an e-mail just like the ones
that you are talking about supposedly from PayPal. I forwarded it to
PayPal to let them see it.

                          Todd
                          N4JRZ

-----Original Message-----
From: sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Marx
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:34 PM
To: aSFDXA
Subject: [South Florida DX Association] Identity Theft...eBay or PayPal
or aBank...

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


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