Scam email! Important!

Oh yeah I get these kind of e mails all the time. Also the one's from nigeria asking you for you account information.. so they can send you millions of dollars is funny! I always knew these things were scams. People should get out there.. and do real business... they need to stop trying to scam people. Scamming is not the way to go.

I am always receiving these kinds of emails from "Paypal", "ebay", my bank, banks that aren't my banks, and banks I've never heard of. Those from the fake Paypal and ebay are identifiable by the way they address you. If they do not address you by name (ie Dear Customer as opposed Dear John Smith) then it is fake. You can forward fraudulent Paypal emails to spoof@paypal.com. I forward every single one of them. I report the ones from ebay, though a little more difficult since you have to go on the site, go to their security centre and copy and paste the email into a box; and I report the ones supposedly from my bank. I don't report the ones from other banks because I don't have their email addresses (duh! they're not my bank!) Most definitely report whatever you can. The sooner we get rid of these scammers the better place the internet will be. Unfortunately, there will always be scammers. *sigh*

thanks for alerting us again about this scam... we really have to be careful nowadays as scammers are everywhere and they try to steal our personal information and our money... glad that the people here are nice and kind enough to alert other members here so that we won't get tricked... thanks once again...

These guys are good. They do it all the time. You probably should let Paypal know about this. I have sent info to them before. You really have to be careful with those idiots who try to steal your idenity. Keep up the good work.

I was told by Paypal that when they contact you, they call you by your first name, if the email does not start with your name then it is not from them. They also said you should forward the email to them so they can take care of it.

One very helpful hint to always remember is that if you are unsure if it is a legit email from Paypal all you have to d is forward it to them and they will get back to you letting you know if its a phishing email or one they actually sent. I have came across a few that just about fooled me if it weren't for Paypal verifying they did not send it.

oh my god. what various types of scams are appearing each day here and there. its really ridiculous now. why there is no laws or anything like these against them.

Check the header and get the source code and send it to paypal. If your using gmail, you have the feature there to read the ip address from the sending web mail.

Thank you for the heads up on this one. These people are constantly trying to perfect the art of scamming, and they get better every time! Since we can't stop them, we just have to be vigilant to outsmart their schemes. Always look for the 'https' in the url. If the http has an 'S' at the end, it means that you are in a secured site. Keep safe everyone.

thanxs for this kind information..but i wanna tell u that i also donot have any credit card then how they will charge me.

I see several have already given you the "spoof" address to forward these e-mails to. Always do that, no matter how many you get because as I understand it Paypal likes to investigate them all. Annie

Thanks for the heads up! I have not received any emails from paypal or claiming to be from paypal lately but it is good to be aware of scams so I know to be on the lookout for them.

Yeah, i jsut looked and i get over 50 SPAM emails per day, i know that people get more than that, but whats the world coming to. Why would people be that sad to make emails like that, they should just get a job!! Also, how was it from survices@paypal? because paypals real one is that ?!? ow well. Thanks for letting us know, Chris

I agree. Whenever I receive an email like that, I send it to spoof@paypal.com. If it is a phishing email, then paypal will do what it can to disable it.

I get scam email's all the time. I've gotten several paypal scams. You should report them. And the other scams, All I can say is I wish I had all of the money they say I have won. I get alot of them through the mail to. I guess I got on soneone's list.

I had the same thing happen before. Just forward the email to spoof@paypal.com and they will tell you if it is a hoax or not.

Thank for your information...