Posts Tagged ‘paypal’
New PayPal phishing scam
This is a pretty obvious and lame scam, but new, inexperienced and gullible people fall for almost every scam, no matter how blatant, so here we go:
All the usual tell-tale signs — bad grammar, punctuation and syntax, spoofed email address, NO “To:” address, emotional blackmail and insecure documents demanding that you log into your PayPal account.
It’s a S-C-A-M!
Beware of well-meaning, IGNORANT “Gurus”!
This isn’t a scam warning. It’s a “risky business” alert, triggered by a rash of new programs and online systems from well-intentioned Internet marketers who are simply “flying blind” — and look set to take a whole lot of equally-ignorant people over the cliff-edge with them.
Yep… it’s the old 2-tier affiliate programs that pay through PayPal “lemming run”. It’s back again, to wreak havoc on Internet marketers who don’t know about, or don’t remember, the previous massacres.
PayPal $6 scam
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):







