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Quote from: Pmalek on January 03, 2020, 05:23:09 AM

The first phishing attempt on my Paypal account! I wanted to share it with the community. Here it goes.

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Scammers aren't even trying to make it look professional but they are still successful, otherwise such emails wouldn't be sent.

Thank you for sharing Grin

I used to receive PayPal phising emails quite regularly until they stopped by themselves. I also used to get many from all sorts of banks asking me to login to my account even though I never even had an account there.

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This also happens in email verifications when an odd email comes to you naming their email as nearly the same as the provider.

Usually, they will direct you to "login for verification" same as you received but it's the actual phishing site where they'll get your information. And when I receive emails like that, better to ignore.

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Quote from: seandiumx20 on January 03, 2020, 08:46:23 AM

I agree that our personal names are included on those email they are sending to us.

I received a bunch of emails from those phishing sites.

If your account is limited, this is the right statement for informing the user of paypal. (picture below)

Your account access is temporarily limited✅ not Your account has limited❌.
For that grammar, I cringe.

@seandiumx20 many people yet don’t understand that if a mail begins with words like sir, their email addresses they’re fake because PayPal official mails always addresses us by our name. I don’t know about you’ll but official mails or not I never open links which comes in my mail box, because I prefer going directly to the site and checking it out though it consumes few extra minutes but it’s fine this way I know my data will be safe.

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You might want to use a different email address mate. Unless you share that email address you're using on public, there's a good chance that that email address already got leaked somewhere(most likely from a past website hack). There's a good chance that this is not the last phishing mail you're going to receive this month.

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Quote from: Pmalek on January 04, 2020, 02:48:23 AM

Quote from: GreatArkansas on January 03, 2020, 07:38:32 PM

Hahaha, they are starting to spread again, omg. Can you share what the email address they used to try to phish you?
(....)

The email came from [email protected]
(...)

Speaking of this, do we have any solution to take down this email address? Like some agencies or email provider we can ask to take down this email address so he/she can't use anymore that email address in future attacks.
Just like in domain registrar which you can report some domain if they have some violation or abuse activities.

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A person with paypal account that always read the email he/she received and compare it with the real one would be safe just like what you did. It is very important that we know about the sites that we use e.g paypal email's content would always use the person's full name after "Dear" and not using "Customer". Dear customer have been used before and they can still use it now to scam people.

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This happens often to pretty much everyone. They just mass spam these emails but I am not sure where they get their email lists that is what bothers me the most about all this.
They have tried to even send me fake login attempts for steam and the game Runescape and Wow. Even if you do not play the game they will just take a change in the odd chance you do happen to play the game.
I guess they try to learn how to sell the account for a quick buck. I never read any of these emails I just assume they all crap.

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Quote from: Pmalek on January 03, 2020, 05:23:09 AM

The first phishing attempt on my Paypal account! I wanted to share it with the community. Here it goes.

Dear Customer?
Really, you don't know my name? I have been using your overpriced solutions to pay bills for many years and you call me costumer!?
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal doesn't address their clients with 'Costumer', 'Client' or by first name. They will address you with your full name in all emails.

Due violation agreement
What is due? Due to what Huh

Your account has limited
O crap, my account has limited? I better unlimit my account and log in to my account for details information asap.
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal emails are not written by staff who can't write a single sentence in English.

Scammers aren't even trying to make it look professional but they are still successful, otherwise such emails wouldn't be sent.

This is an old way of scamming with phishing attempt. I remember that i got such emails from my local bank account and it said that you account is closed and you need to verify by logging to the online website (the link leads to the fake banking site). This is a similar attempt by the scammers impersonating to be official paypal. This should be forwarded to paypal so that they can bring this fake site down.

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Quote from: Pmalek on January 03, 2020, 05:23:09 AM

The first phishing attempt on my Paypal account! I wanted to share it with the community. Here it goes.

Dear Customer?
Really, you don't know my name? I have been using your overpriced solutions to pay bills for many years and you call me costumer!?
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal doesn't address their clients with 'Costumer', 'Client' or by first name. They will address you with your full name in all emails.

Due violation agreement
What is due? Due to what Huh

Your account has limited
O crap, my account has limited? I better unlimit my account and log in to my account for details information asap.
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal emails are not written by staff who can't write a single sentence in English.

Scammers aren't even trying to make it look professional but they are still successful, otherwise such emails wouldn't be sent.

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Whoever tried to scam you overlooked that details, but it's good that you are attentive to details, but people can easily avoid this if they look first on the URL and see if they are really landing in the right domain name or better login via search engine, but do bookmark all the sites that you are frequently using.

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Quote from: archoco on January 03, 2020, 05:13:22 PM

Paypal doesn't also provide a limited access from what I know.

They do limit accounts for different violations of their TOS. I think the most common limitations is the one where they hold your funds for 180 days and you can't withdraw them. It never happened to me so I can't tell you more about that.

Quote from: GreatArkansas on January 03, 2020, 07:38:32 PM

Hahaha, they are starting to spread again, omg. Can you share what the email address they used to try to phish you?
And also btw, do you really have a PayPal account? And just a little bit curious why he/she knows that you have a PayPal account.

The email came from [email protected]
I do have a Paypal account but I am sure I wasn't specifically targeted. I have received similar things in the past but never to this particular email address.

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Phishing and spoof emails are a leading cause of stolen information and identity theft, and they can be hard to spot. Fake emails often look like the real thing so it’s important to stay vigilant online

Just forward it to [email protected], maybe they will executing those fake.

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Quote from: seandiumx20 on January 03, 2020, 08:46:23 AM

I agree that our personal names are included on those email they are sending to us.

Those scammers are getting smarter it seems.

I remembered the days when they used to address us as "Customer".

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Actually this kind of phishing attempts using Paypal was discovered by ESET researchers in Latin America in the last week of December, and it's spreading like wildfire, Ambitious scam wants far more than just PayPal logins.

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The manufactured sense of urgency is not the only telltale sign to tip you off that something is amiss. Other giveaways include the odd URL (though partly obfuscated here for security reasons), substandard English, chopped-off letters, and the use of a CAPTCHA.

Yes, this is nothing new, but I'm sure many can still fall for this kind of trick.

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Hahaha, they are starting to spread again, omg. Can you share what the email address they used to try to phish you?
And also btw, do you really have a PayPal account? And just a little bit curious why he/she knows that you have a PayPal account.

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Scammers aren't even trying to make it look professional but they are still successful, otherwise such emails wouldn't be sent.

This is kinda difficult for them for sure, maybe they are expecting their victims at are same levels with them or below.

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Nothing new. At the end of the day, they'll still manage to steal from some of the less cautious users with poorer English skills, similarly how Nigerian scammers are still making money despite the seemingly obvious clues of who they are.

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Quote from: Pmalek on January 03, 2020, 05:23:09 AM

Dear Customer?
Really, you don't know my name? I have been using your overpriced solutions to pay bills for many years and you call me costumer!?
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal doesn't address their clients with 'Costumer', 'Client' or by first name. They will address you with your full name in all emails.

That's their way of calling their wannabe victims, besides its a common and usual presentation of being formal that's why they use "Costumer". I had emails from the past that also use the same thing, its not that bad. But still when banks and other forms of money related company, they usually call their clients by their first name, last name or the last digits 3-4 of their accounts.

So yes, this is in fact a phishing with shills. Paypal doesn't also provide a limited access from what I know.

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I agree that our personal names are included on those email they are sending to us.

I received a bunch of emails from those phishing sites.

If your account is limited, this is the right statement for informing the user of paypal. (picture below)

Your account access is temporarily limited✅ not Your account has limited❌.
For that grammar, I cringe.

Pmalek

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The first phishing attempt on my Paypal account! I wanted to share it with the community. Here it goes.

Dear Customer?
Really, you don't know my name? I have been using your overpriced solutions to pay bills for many years and you call me costumer!?
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal doesn't address their clients with 'Costumer', 'Client' or by first name. They will address you with your full name in all emails.

Due violation agreement
What is due? Due to what Huh

Your account has limited
O crap, my account has limited? I better unlimit my account and log in to my account for details information asap.
KEEP IN MIND: Paypal emails are not written by staff who can't write a single sentence in English.

Scammers aren't even trying to make it look professional but they are still successful, otherwise such emails wouldn't be sent.

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