Hi all, I received the following mail in my Spam box, which seems to be a phising hoax, as it asks me to click on a link and enter my bank account details.... How stupid do they think I am??
Email as received (I edited the receipients details of course.)
Dear PayPal Member,
Please confirm payment to POWERELECTRONICS ([email protected]) $1599.99 USD using PayPal and your Shipping Information.
This credit card payment will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL".
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PayPal Shopping Cart Contents
Item Name: BRAND NEW Sony Vaio UX180P Micro PC
Quantity: 1
Total: $1599.99 USD
Cart Subtotal: $1599.99 USD
Shipping Charge: $22.99 USD
Cart Total: $1622.98 USD
Payment Status: Unconfirmed
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Shipping Information
Shipping Info: K******* Davis
***** ***Lane
*******, GA 3*****
United States
Address Status: Unconfirmed
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Please click the link below to confirm or to cancel your payment
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr.php?cmd=_processing-payment-Account-login43689473fgh5g4HGGTYG
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Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
PayPal Email ID PP150
End e-mail.....
I mean, I did not buy a Computer and I'm not mr. Davis, how many people are stupid enough to fall for this one??
Stay alert..
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scam alert
Posted: Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 09:17 PM UTC
DaveCox
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Posted: Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 11:02 PM UTC
Have you forwarded this to Paypal Henk?
Grumpyoldman
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Posted: Friday, December 08, 2006 - 01:00 AM UTC
for these use:
[email protected]
or
[email protected]
according to what or whom it is suppose to be comming from.
FORWARD them, do not click on any links, or copy and paste.
[email protected]
or
[email protected]
according to what or whom it is suppose to be comming from.
FORWARD them, do not click on any links, or copy and paste.
Posted: Friday, December 08, 2006 - 04:29 AM UTC
I did forward it, and only copied part of it (i.e. there's bits missing, especialy from the link).
erichvon
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Posted: Friday, December 08, 2006 - 07:55 AM UTC
I've had two of these today for a wheelchair I was supposedly selling (I'm not!) so forwarded them to spoof @ebay. Unsurprisingly they were BS as ebay mailed me back quickly to say they had nothing to do with them.