For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

This has been posted several times here but I am going to post on the subject again:

I got an email from "Paypal" saying that my account has been compromised and that I need to log in. Well we all know that it is "phishing" so they can get your account and password. I clicked on the link to see the address and it was "http://hometown.aol.de/elisabeth2211/". So it is a complete fake and worse the hacker is lazy. Can't even at least try to make the address look like paypal. These guys are scum.

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

I was listening to a radio news article the other day, and it said that within hours of hurricane Katrina hitting, fake websites started to appear taking donations. Thats pretty sick.

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

thanks for the link in the OP. I put my info on the site, and it told me my account will not be frozen.

actually, i like putting in fake usernames with passwords as "GoF***Yourself"

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

When I get these, and I have some time to kill, I often will fill out everything with false, but close to real, information. Figure that the least I can do is make them go off on a wild goose chase with bad information. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

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When I get these, and I have some time to kill, I often will fill out everything with false, but close to real, information. Figure that the least I can do is make them go off on a wild goose chase with bad information. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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you are probably wasting more of your time than you are of their time

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

THX for the post.

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

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actually, i like putting in fake usernames with passwords as "GoF***Yourself"

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I do that too!

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

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I was listening to a radio news article the other day, and it said that within hours of hurricane Katrina hitting, fake websites started to appear taking donations. Thats pretty sick.

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Yea, actually, there were many domains registered with some form of "Katrina" and "charity" or donation related words before it even hit. As soon as it was clear that Katrina was going to cause damage, the scammers prepared. How sick it is to actively try to scam and make money on someone else's downfall.

I wish I would be out some night to have a random person brag about how much they made on a disaster. I would quickly register a domain name in that person's name because they would soon need some charity of their own.

Re: For those that get \"Paypal\" and \"Ebay\" emails
 

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This has been posted several times here but I am going to post on the subject again:

I got an email from "Paypal" saying that my account has been compromised and that I need to log in. Well we all know that it is "phishing" so they can get your account and password. I clicked on the link to see the address and it was "http://hometown.aol.de/elisabeth2211/". So it is a complete fake and worse the hacker is lazy. Can't even at least try to make the address look like paypal. These guys are scum.

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I send them to spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com.

I always get the same annoying canned answer back, but I like to think somehow somewhere they're being tracked down.

KO

Re: Alternatively you can do this...
 

-----Original Message-----
From: abuse@megamailservers.com [mailto:abuse@megamailservers.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:02 PM

Subject: Re: FW: Phishing site needs to be removed

Hello,

The specified site (http://hometown.aol.de/elisabeth2211/) is not actually hosted by us; however, it was redirecting traffic to a phishing site on our system.
The domain on our system has been terminated for violating our TOS.

We thank you for your assistance with this matter.

Regards,

Alex R.
abuse@megamailservers.com

DNS Admin wrote:

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> *From:* Ellis Romero
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:59 AM
> *To:* support@internetnamesforbusiness.com
> *Cc:* spoof@paypal.com
> *Subject:* Phishing site needs to be removed
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> Hello Sirs,
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> The following site http://hometown.aol.de/elisabeth2211/
> (216.251.31.94) hosted by your ISP needs to be immediately removed and
> the owners contacted with regards to running a PayPal password
> phishing scam. I would expect that you would want to sever yourself
> from any such activity with immediate effect. Please let me know what
> action you take,
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> Regards,
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> Ellis Romero
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