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I'm sure they know about it.
A quick search turned up a few stories on it:
http://news.com.com/2100-1018-991639.html
. http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/1470291
.
The following has a sample similar to mine: http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBScams.shtml#paypal


Bill

Bill,

The actual "from" field in the email is pretty meaningless, as that can contain anything the sender cares to put in it. What I'd be looking at is the route this mesaage took, compared to the systems that a genuine message from PayPal usually takes.

But even without that, it's got to be a scam anyway. There's no way that even your own bank should ever need to ask for your ATM code, nevermind anyone else.

I got one a while ago that looked to be from ebay and asked me to verify my account info including credit card.

The link in the email even showed the URL for an ebay page but didn't actually go there. It went to another address where an entire ebay website had been set up. All the links worked, It was a perfect reproduction of the real ebay but wasn't.

I emailed ebay with the address, got a thank you from them within 20 minutes and went to check and the other site was already gone.

It looks as though this scam has been going the rounds.

I found this thread on the UK eBay discussion board.



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 06-17-2003).]

That's just not on really!.
Impersonating other peoples websites.
These people have no morals!.
I wish there was an International group that could police exactly what was sent over the Internet, with the likes of SPAM, pop-up advertising, etc.
After all, we are all paying to use this resource, shouldn't we have the right to use this without all the BS that comes in regardless of wether we want it anyway?.

[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 06-20-2003).]

Trumpy,

I think things would have to get really opressively bad for many to agree that any regulation of any kind should be in place.

I just got another fake PayPal Email today and it made me think of this thread. Same as the first.

DON'T DO IT!

Bill

Bill,
I'm afraid that it is that way, every Webmaster has to make money and they employ people to send SPAM these days.
The internet is just becoming like one big Car lot, just an advertisers Dream, had to happen I suppose!.

Bill,
I am not referring to ECN, of course.
Some Webmasters around just pimp everyones email addresses out to all and sundry, hence the large number of junk emails!.

Uh oh.....

"How 'bout this little Cray Supercomputer, Sir? It was owned by a little old lady from Pasedena who only used it to balance her checkbook!"

Trumpy,

You're right I'm afraid.
We have had offers and inquiries about purchasing our Mailing Lists but would never sell them.

There also seem to be people or Computers that make up random email addresses and send out things. If it doesn't come back to them it gets added to their list to sell to some unsuspecting person or company that wants to promote their product. It's not unusual for me to get 20 copies of the same email at one time.

Bill