Pay Pal Review Team

[CJ6]

Received e-mail today from Pay Pal Review Team (ever heard of it ?). No-one in the house has a Pay Pal account (Phishing Scam ?). add is pp@ppreveiw.com. Says my account is being limited until they look "into it", but if I fill in the appropriate info CC'# bank account # so on and so forth it'll help clear it up (yeah RIGHT). Just a heads up for you guys........

 

[dedogs]

Thanks for the heads up. Lot's of scams out there.

 

[Tim Singleton]

Thanks for the heads up

Doesn't PP have a link to forward those type emails to them to check up on?

 

[thekriebles]

Thanks for the heads-up on PayPal. A large variety of scams are numerous during the holiday season. Definitely need to be very diligent.

 

[RDavies]

I get this email every month or so, but not as often as I get emails from Nigerian Princes who want to put one billion dollars in my bank account.

 

[nmjwolf]

Speaking of scams...
Had a guy call the house and leave a message two days in a row about an IRS incident...I called back and was told I had a tax debt, the guy had my number, address, and a tax case number....after about 10 minutes I figured it was a scam and told him that it was a scam and hung up. Now this guy decides to call back and tell me he was going to f$#^/ and kill my wife. Thats a new level.

 

[joshb]

We got the IRS scam a month or two ago. About a week after a friend told us about her call. We also got one, where the guy said there was a problem with our computer. I had to "immediately log on" to some site and "let them in,to fix it", or my world would end. My wife does all the books ( with my oversite )and I told him that if I let somebody into her computer, MY world would definitely end![/img]

 

[North Fork]

You should send that email to pay pal.

 

[jsn]

The scams seem to run in batches. I've been getting a bunch of phony emails, most of which do hit the spam folder. Notifications of packages shipped when I didn't order anything, problems with my account, etc. I just delete them without ever opening them.

My favorites are the phone calls, usually with the caller having an accent of some flavor. One was claiming to call from Micosoft Technical Support (although the third time he called he did say "Microtech"), claiming my computer was sending a message to Microsoft that it was infected. He couldn't answer any questions, like why my computer wasn't telling ME it found problems, or what my name was and how he got my phone number, he just told me that if I gave him control of my computer all of my problems would be solved. I didn't comply with his wishes.

The most recent was a caller with an accent telling me I had won a Federal grant that I never applied for. Again, he couldn't tell me my name or what type of grant I had won, just that I needed to give him my name and bank account number so he could send me my new found wealth. I just laughed at him, told him I knew he was lying, and hung up.

They're out there.

 

[bdale]

I haven't gotten anything from PayPal but awhile back I got a call from a guy claiming to be Publishers Clearing House. He ask me how it felt to be a Millionaire as I had just won,I told him that was great if it were actually true, he insisted it was true and gave me another phone number to call so I could verify all my information. I thought I'll play this game and see where it goes, and as you might guess he wanted all the info you would guess ,Bank Acc. and so on. Well when the person answered the second phone call it was the same guy although he was trying to disguise his voice, he wasn't doing a very good job at it probably because of his accent. I ask him why he didn't ask me for this info the first time he had me on the phone,but he insisted he was with Publishers Clearing House, long story short I call the SBI here in N.C. and they turned me over to the FBI. They asked if the person had an accent and I said yes, then they wanted to know if it was Caribbean and I told them I thought so, then the lady on the phone told me they get a lot of these type of calls from out of country. She told me that Publishers Clearing House sells your info when ever you enter their sweepstakes or play one of their online games, that how they make money trouble is she said is they don't care who they sell it to

 

[Changeling]

WOW! Man you are lucky, they only wanted to put 10 million in my account 8).

 

[Raythemanroe]

Rule of thumb, If you didn't inquire then don't give your info out. I wouldn't type a word not to a friend over the net



Ray

 

[Blaster-37]

I got the same thing. I contacted PayPal and they said it was bogus. Danger.

 

[DennisH]

You should send that email to pay pal.

I did.

I got the same call and my son feel for it. They put 3 passwords in your computer and want $300.00 to straighten it out.

Best Buy has a software disk that will reset your password, once in, he finds the others. He removes them as well. Then the best thing is to change all your passwords in your computer immediately. They never got my $300.00.

I don't think my son will ever do anything like that again either.

 

[dickn52]

Probably some west african nation hard at work trying to balance a deficit. Nigerian banking scams have been all the rage lately....again. Little old ladies dying of some cruel disease and wanting leave me a zillion bucks because they liked my email address or something. Chasing these thieves is what I did when I worked so I know how to find the real address of these people and I simply forward their emails back to them. It's funny sometimes.

 

[DennisH]

Out of the blue today, got a call from Cabela's stating I couldn't use my current card and I should have a new one next week.

They said don't worry about anything else, it was a security issue!

Dennis

 

['Freak]

Forward the scammer’s BS to the for real PayPal folk here:

spoof@paypal.com