Phishing for Attention

[emmuzka]

This morning there was this typical, well made phishing mail in my inbox: Dear Paypal customer of name we don't know, we have red-flagged your account and would you please go to this fake page via this link and tell us your password, visa card number, social security numer, you ATM pin code and your mother's maiden name. Thanks!

Yesh, right. I copied the fake page's url and informed it to the real Pay Pal. And what was waiting for me in when I got home tonight?

Dear (my real name here),

You have successfully submitted a claim of "Unauthorized Use of My PayPal Account." For your protection, your account access may be limited and all reported transactions pended.

PayPal will begin an investigation into the account, including contact with recipient accounts, corresponding sellers, and/or other victims. If the case is decided in your favor, you will receive a full refund of any reported transactions, as well as any related PayPal fees once the investigation is complete.

Sincerely,
PayPal, an eBay Company

Yeah. Thanks for that.

Comments

[ainaria.livejournal.com]

Lovely. No good deed goes unpunished.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Yep. They probably have to assume by default that the people reporting the sites like these *already* gave their account info. And now when I went and did the good deed of reporting the page, I ended up in the list of customers with potentially corrupted accounts. Lovely, indeed. A good thing that I don't have any money transmission going on in there at the moment.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Asshats!

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Grr! I don't dare to even log on to my account to check it out for the fear of them banning my ip-address or something. Paypal is famous for their sudden, weird actions, like "We suspect you from money loundring and freeze your account for six months! ave a nice life!"

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

I had that problem too. They stop your account a little if you email it to phishing@paypal.com. However! If you email it to spoof@paypal.com, they don't stop your account! They just congratulate you for successfully reporting a phisher.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

That's so... not consistant. I just sent the mail via the first form that I found under the security center-link. Next time I will use the spoof addy to save my own account from the hasle!

[yavannie77.livejournal.com]

Ahhaha, I wonder what would I get in response if I notified them of the several similar emails I've been getting for months already. As I don't have a PayPal account. *snort*

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Hee! I actually almost got scammed onece. I had just started in eBay and didn't know what was common and what was not. I filled out their question form half way before I started wondering if they were asking *a little too much* questions at once.