PayPal is suspending my account

[proud2BlibKansan]

But I never set up an account with PayPal using the email address they used to contact me. I last had a PayPal account a couple years ago when I had a different email address. But if I don't immediately send them my credit card number, my account will be suspended. When I signed up with PayPal, they told me they would not contact me via email to verify credit card info. But now some idiot wants me to believe I should drop everything and send them my credit card number. This is the tenth notice I have received in the last ten days telling me my account is going to be suspended.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. These guys are relentless.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Is someone phishing you?

Check the link URL. Is it some weird, changing address?

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. I will check

You mean the URL is different every time? I have deleted the other messages. Only one I have now is the one I got today.

[Nye Bevan]

2. That is a "phishing" scam-- the email is not really from Paypal

This is from a criminal trying to get your credit card information.

For more info see

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_help-ext&ui_mode=answer&prior_transaction_id=0&action_code=4&answer_id=1689268&leafid=609971&_PPP=511&_PPC=8387315&_FI=Privacy_&_Security

They ask that you forward the entire email to [email protected]

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yeah, I get these phishing emails all the time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Great band though

but horrible scam.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Thanks

will do

But should I include my credit card number? :)

[distantearlywarning]

3. I get those every single day.

Maybe they think that one of these days I will magically forget that they are phishers and send them my credit card info?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I guess

I have been sending them funny replies, like

get a real job

go ahead make my day suspend my account

please use my new email address: [email protected]


But they keep sending me messages.

[KaliTracy]

28. when you send them a message back, they know they have a "live" email

most of the repeats you were getting were probably not from the same people -- but when you respond, then the email address is noted as "live" by their mass-mail program....

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. Well now I feel stoopid

but thanks for the heads up.

[lenidog]

4. Some phishing e-mails are as moronic as the giver you bank account

number to some guy in Africa. How do people fall for this crap.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Anyone have access to a freeper's credit card number?

I am in a mood to send that number in.

[lenidog]

16. It would have to be the number of an especially loathsome

freeper. One they get your numbers you will end up having credit lines in Russia.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. LOL

I wish I had the nerve. There is this one particularly obnoxious freeper . . .

[lenidog]

26. Actually its true

Russia and Eastern Europe is now the big clearing house for stolen identities. Usually what happens is that they take out a credit lines or credit cards and then buy luxuries and sell them for the cash. But yeah it would have to be the biggest scum on the planet because I managed to catch someone using my info before they had really started. It took several months of duking it out with Beneficial Loans and threatening legal action before they took it off my credit report.

[obxhead]

6. got a MBNA card?

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I wish

But maybe I could make up a number. Does it say MBNA on the card?

[obxhead]

24. got no idea

don't have the card myself, but I did have a "free" T shirt at one point. worked great for changing the oil in my car.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Somehow I don't think that's really from PayPal

Getting fraudulent emails supposedly from PayPal is pretty common.

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_help-ext&eloc=1401&loc=1399&unique_id=609971&source_page=_home&flow=

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Oh I am sure it isn't really from PayPal

I have never given them this email address.

[BikeWriter]

10. Block the crooks or report it as spam.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. I have done both

but I keep getting these emails. Now they go to my bulk mail account.

[surfermaw]

14. Same thing

An I never had an account with them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. See my post #13

and let's have some fun.

[uppityperson]

18. I like getting these from banks I don't have an account at

stooopid

[BattyDem]

19. I got something like that from CitiBank last night

They "needed" to verify my CitiBank Online account info. They included a link to a web page and I was asked to fill in my user info.

As most of you probably know, when you hover over a link with the cursor, the URL of that link show's up in the lower left-hand corner of your browser or email program. When I did that, the link did not go to the CitiBank site. That was the second clue that it was a scam. What was the first one? Well ... I don't have a CitiBank Online account. :eyes:

Of course, I knew it was a scam the second I received it, but many people click those links and provide their personal info. How can people still be that stupid when there have been so many reports about identity theft, credit card fraud, etc.? :shrug:

[lenidog]

22. I wish I could remember the name but I was sitting around

waiting for an interview and I was bored so I picked up an issue of Reader's Digest. They had an article in it about the greatest identity thief so far in criminal history. I think they said that he had stolen a couple hundred million dollars. He did't steal jo schmoes identity he was stealing Bill Gates, Oprahs and other celebrities or big business's peoples identities.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. I know a guy

who paid a bunch of money to buy the rights to his name on a website so no one else could use it. He had read about some celebrity who could not use their name for their website because someone else had the rights. The kicker was this guy wasn't famous and his name wasn't either. I asked him if he was anticipating future fame. Some people :eyes:

[lenidog]

27. LOL

Well this guy had ran wild for a couple years before he got too greedy and the Feds finally caught him. I mean he was going for the big money and I think when they caught him it was through trying to steal George Soros's info and get a huge line of credit and then ship it offshore.