Topic: Warning! Be careful with messages that receive money (Read 373 times)
I dont know why there are still a lot of people being victimized by this phishing method. Emails containing messages that youve won or someone send you money and you must click link is an absoultely a phishing /hacking attempt.
Don't click on any emails if you are n't sure it is the genuine one and also don't give your private information to anyone and don't download any link which you have received on your email.
Basically, if you are getting any email regarding your payment details and your account login details then don't respond to that email.
Don't click the link blindly 1st just try to verify from your end.
Basically, if you are getting any email regarding your payment details and your account login details then don't respond to that email.
Don't click the link blindly 1st just try to verify from your end.
This is nothing new. There is one for blickchain.info as well. Telling you that you have just received a transaction and to log in to get it. They distract you with money and hope the greed will stop your brain from working and often it does. Sometimes it can be a pure accident and you clicked the link by mistake and forgot you had only to try login and have all your info stolen. Pay attention when handing financial transactions and websites. Do not become distracted and do one thing at a time.
Any message sent to your email concerning money and you're not aware of it or you didn't register for it, just ignore it cos there's every chance it will end up been scam. I normally receive such messages from different angles, promising to double up my money if I register with them
Most common scheme done by scammers is to randomly send emails telling you that you won money or you earn money from our promo please provide your information which filling your information will lead you to being scammed by some random scammer and there's nothing you can do about it. Being aware of such situation will help you avoid getting scammed.
Any message sent to your email concerning money and you're not aware of it or you didn't register for it, just ignore it cos there's every chance it will end up been scam. I normally receive such messages from different angles, promising to double up my money if I register with them
Just by looking at the email address of the sender you will see it's not coming from Paypal. What you need to be more aware of are the ones with the convincing ones which are way too similar to the official email address as if you aren't used to opening up emails from your financial accounts you would barely see the difference. You should always ask yourself why did you have that refund if you haven't transacted with them in the first place or why you have won a prize when you aren't joining any contests. People are way to jolly when they see money coming in they forget to the fact that their is a big chance it's fake.
That's not always the case. There are ways you can spoof the sender email and make it look completely legit.See: https://lifehacker.com/how-spammers-spoof-your-email-address-and-how-to-prote-1579478914
What you need to do is:
1. always manually go to the website and see what is happening for yourself, rather than clicking on the email link; or
2. copying everything on the link after the main domain, writing it yourself and pasting the remaining link; and
3. ALWAYS triple-check the URL.
Just by looking at the email address of the sender you will see it's not coming from Paypal. What you need to be more aware of are the ones with the convincing ones which are way too similar to the official email address as if you aren't used to opening up emails from your financial accounts you would barely see the difference. You should always ask yourself why did you have that refund if you haven't transacted with them in the first place or why you have won a prize when you aren't joining any contests. People are way to jolly when they see money coming in they forget to the fact that their is a big chance it's fake.
That's not always the case. There are ways you can spoof the sender email and make it look completely legit.See: https://lifehacker.com/how-spammers-spoof-your-email-address-and-how-to-prote-1579478914
What you need to do is:
1. always manually go to the website and see what is happening for yourself, rather than clicking on the email link; or
2. copying everything on the link after the main domain, writing it yourself and pasting the remaining link; and
3. ALWAYS triple-check the URL.
Just by looking at the email address of the sender you will see it's not coming from Paypal. What you need to be more aware of are the ones with the convincing ones which are way too similar to the official email address as if you aren't used to opening up emails from your financial accounts you would barely see the difference. You should always ask yourself why did you have that refund if you haven't transacted with them in the first place or why you have won a prize when you aren't joining any contests. People are way to jolly when they see money coming in they forget to the fact that their is a big chance it's fake.
This scam is old. I get these all the time. I don't use paypal so... Anyone falling for this is stupid and greedy. You can't get a refund on something you never bought. DOH!!
1% is a lot. That would be plenty of people falling for it. More like 0.0001% Maybe less. They send thousands of these emails daily. They use clickbait like money-back offers, refunds, special deals only for "you" not available elsewhere and stuff like that.
Awareness has increased, making the probability of success of such scams success less than 1%.
This type of scam is considered an old school of fraud, but ignoring such links will not help to limit them. Report them.
You can report:
- Bitcointalk ----> Report to moderator ----> Phishing Page/URL
- Report Phishing Page -----> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
- Gmail account ----> click the 3 dot menu ----> click "Report phishing."
This type of scam is considered an old school of fraud, but ignoring such links will not help to limit them. Report them.
You can report:
- Bitcointalk ----> Report to moderator ----> Phishing Page/URL
- Report Phishing Page -----> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
- Gmail account ----> click the 3 dot menu ----> click "Report phishing."
1% is a lot. That would be plenty of people falling for it. More like 0.0001% Maybe less. They send thousands of these emails daily. They use clickbait like money-back offers, refunds, special deals only for "you" not available elsewhere and stuff like that.
Many thanks for your warning. Looks like scammers with very low success rates. New people are aware of scammers and what they do, inform the community. I don't use PP, it won't do anything when I don't have a paypal account
You should turn into a Jr. Member in a few minutes, and thus be able to edit the OP and display the images there properly now for everyone’s benefit. -> done.
There is another way to see images attached from Newbies by looking at those image-attached posts in their post history. Without quoting those posts, we are still able to see images, that will be displayed if we look at those posts in post histories, not look at them directly in OP, or posts.I participated in the forum for about a year and this is the first time I have the first merit. I am really happy
You should turn into a Jr. Member in a few minutes, and thus be able to edit the OP and display the images there properly now for everyone’s benefit. -> done.
There is another way to see images attached from Newbies by looking at those image-attached posts in their post history. Without quoting those posts, we are still able to see images, that will be displayed if we look at those posts in post histories, not look at them directly in OP, or posts. 
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You should turn into a Jr. Member in a few minutes, and thus be able to edit the OP and display the images there properly now for everyone’s benefit. -> done.The phishing site seems to be down now, but the type of scam shown in the OP is likely to be a recurring one, so being alert and very wary of URLs, links and so forth is mandatory.
<…> thanks DdmrDdmr sent to me merit!
I participated in the forum for about a year and this is the first time I have the first merit. I am really happy
… That is because the OP is basically the first content oriented post you’ve made that is not bounty related. Bounty post are not meritable, and as soon as one provides some kind of post that has some reasonable content, it becomes a postulant to receiving merit. In addition, having a history of posts that is extremely heavy on the bounty reporting side will normally lessen the chances of being merited on regular posts.I participated in the forum for about a year and this is the first time I have the first merit. I am really happy
Awareness has increased, making the probability of success of such scams success less than 1%.
This type of scam is considered an old school of fraud, but ignoring such links will not help to limit them. Report them.
You can report:
- Bitcointalk ----> Report to moderator ----> Phishing Page/URL
- Report Phishing Page -----> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
- Gmail account ----> click the 3 dot menu ----> click "Report phishing."
This type of scam is considered an old school of fraud, but ignoring such links will not help to limit them. Report them.
You can report:
- Bitcointalk ----> Report to moderator ----> Phishing Page/URL
- Report Phishing Page -----> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
- Gmail account ----> click the 3 dot menu ----> click "Report phishing."
Obviously, it is a phishing site. No secure sign on the website link used.
Yes, this is a phishing site and that email is used to attempt several people that it has sent that email which happens everyday. I also received same email before.Check the domain of that email and if you find it obviously wrong, don't click it. There are instances that the domain looks identical so an option to call the authorities of that company to verify if its legit is okay too.
When opening an email you received you should check who is the sender and base on the image provided you didn't read who sent you that email and click the link right away which is not a good choice to make. Next time you should be careful and always check everything you see if you open an email you received. Anyway, before opening the email you received you actually can see the email sender right away, I guess you didn't check who send you that email you got and almost fell for it.
Better switch from Gmail and use some normal privacy based email provider.
For now, you can blacklist sender, and put it to spam folder.
For now, you can blacklist sender, and put it to spam folder.
It's obvious from sight that you got fake email message. I got hundreds such fake messages throughout they years thatvI'm not paying any attention to it. In your case it's enough to look at email address of sender - it's obvious that PayPal won't send you email from [email protected] address.
And you should NEVER open such suspicious links in your inbox. It may be phishing link or even inffected with malware. Better safe than sorry.
And you should NEVER open such suspicious links in your inbox. It may be phishing link or even inffected with malware. Better safe than sorry.
Paypal doesn't contact their costumers saying Hi or what's up! They will use your full name in any official correspondence.
Emails that start with Dear Sir/Madam or Dear User are not legit.
Besides, even if they are you should never click on links in the emails and login from there just like Jet Cash said.
Type in the address yourself.
Emails that start with Dear Sir/Madam or Dear User are not legit.
Besides, even if they are you should never click on links in the emails and login from there just like Jet Cash said.
Type in the address yourself.
I received this email 7 hours ago, unfortunately it was not filtered and moved to my official inbox.
https://i.imgur.com/IJES5We.png
I found that there are 2 funds sent through mailboxes that need to be confirmed
https://i.imgur.com/63Y7DtL.png
I used VPS to open the "Confirm Now" link and it led me to a website similar to Paypal
https://i.imgur.com/onmOJzN.png
This is a scam, please do not enter information into this site. They will get your password account information.
Quoting to show images.https://i.imgur.com/IJES5We.png
I found that there are 2 funds sent through mailboxes that need to be confirmed
https://i.imgur.com/63Y7DtL.png
I used VPS to open the "Confirm Now" link and it led me to a website similar to Paypal
https://i.imgur.com/onmOJzN.png
This is a scam, please do not enter information into this site. They will get your password account information.
Obviously, it is a phishing site. No secure sign on the website link used.
Be careful on clicking giving link especially on spam mail that unexpected transaction comes.
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