Posts Tagged ‘paypal’

Same-old same-old scam phishing for your PayPal account info, but with new graphics. As always, hover your mouse over the link to see the REAL destination URL. (Hard to believe that people don’t even do this most basic level of checking before clicking and losing their money.)

This is a variation of the usual PayPal account phishing scam. A couple of glaring spelling errors helps, along with the fact that there’s NO email address for the recipient in the headers.

This chain letter scam has been around for a while now. One of the distinguishing features is the claim that it’s somehow endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, or was featured on the Oprah show.

Yeah, right… to denounce it as a scam!

Here’s a recent (2010) copy of the usual PayPal $6 email sent to prospective suckers (and, further down the page, transcripts from a successful court case by the FTC for an identical scam that should make alarming reading for anyone kidding themselves that this scam is legal and ethical, etc):

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