Comments on: Ingenious PayPal mimicing spam

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:12:26 +0000

I received alot of this exact e-mail. What gave away it was a scam was that I had never had a paypal account under this e-mail address. Plus the fact that payment was sent to a different person than the one who had this item I supposedly bought. I am now getting a different e-mail, same kind, but different item and amount, saying I sent money to whomever and I should ship said item to this other person. That’s getting kind of lazy in trying to employ a scam. I just want to know how to get these e-mails to stop. I’m getting around 10 – 15 of them a day. I have never clicked on the link, that I do know would be retarded. If any one knows how please let me know, I’ve marked them as phishing through my hotmail junk account, but that did nothing.

By: kurt wismer

kurt wismer — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:18:16 +0000

@tony t:
i take it you’ve never heard of a drive-by-download… simply going to the site could be enough to compromise your machine with malware… there’s nothing that says phishers have to rely completely on trickery to get the job done…

By: Tony T

Tony T — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:39:14 +0000

Good story. I’m just curious, but what is wrong with clicking the link, just to see where it goes?
The computer isn’t going to explode, but what would actually happen if I were to visit the site?

By: Syber

Syber — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:13:04 +0000

Actually, it has a easy way to judge if a mail from paypal or banks. Real mail always call your real name that cause they knew you, but fake one just call you something USER, like Dear Paypal user…

By: kurt wismer

kurt wismer — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:43:35 +0000

i solve the problem of deciding whether a supposed paypal email is real or not by giving paypal a unique sneakemail.com address to use instead of my real one… then a phisher would have to either guess the unique address i to paypal and noone else or guess what email sent to that address would look like after sneakemail forwards it on to me…

it makes picking real paypal emails out of the pile of fake ones easy…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:12:16 +0000

Sorry about that, I’m kind of tardy when I’m sick :) All done now I hope.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:31:05 +0000

JoJo Daniel added only a small thumbnail where nothing was visible and I removed it. I guess he forgot to include the link to the full size image.

Bloglines have maybe a copy of the story where the image is still available.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:24:35 +0000

Martin – On your RSS feed in Bloglines, I see on the left side a very small image that looks like the email in question. However, I don’t see that image when I come to your actual web page. Why not? Using FF 2.0.0.11.