10-24-15 18:35 ED KOON wrote to ED VANCE about RE: I Got A Fake PayPal E
Howdy! Doc,

 EK> {at}MSGID: 
 EK> On Oct 19, 2015 10:34pm, ED VANCE wrote to ALL:

 EV> I got a Email today about My PayPal Account.
 EV> I don't have a Account with PayPal, and since the Address the message
 EV> came from didn't end with "paypal.com" I Forwarded the
FAKE message to:

 EV> spoof{at}paypal.com
 EV> so their Security Department could investigate it.

 EV> I thought I ought to share that Email Address with the people who read
 EV> this echo, because someone might want to help PayPal Security catch
 EV> people who are impersonating them.

 EK> eBay and PayPal are huge targets. Most of those spoofs are
 EK> being sent by infected pc's and smartphones. There really is
 EK> nothing to investigate as most of these spammers and scammers
 EK> are overseas.

If any company has a internet presence there is some crook who wants to
mess with that company.

It makes the phrase "Buyer Beware" more important for their customers
to pay heed to.

 EK> The number of scams targeting car buyers is frightning. They
 EK> used to use eBay in their phishing scams but now are
 EK> concentrating on Amazon to hook naive suckers.
 EK> https://blog.ebaymotorssucks.com/9680/amazon-payments-car-scam-2
 EK> 014/

I will look at that URL, Thanks!



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