24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
10:06 a.m.
Paypal just blasted me warning that "my"
paypal account is closed!
What? Closing a pretend account? I don't open paypal with them, for
that reason of this idiocity. I still have this silly "scary" email
from paypal for anyone to check.
That E-Mail did not come from Pay-Pal. This was a "phishing" attack. The
E-mail is completely phony, from a 3rd party who is trying to get your
Pay-Pal user ID and password. If you click on the link (supposedly a link
to pay-pal), you will go to a completely phony web site that looks EXACTLY
like the real Pay-Pal site, and when you attempt to "log-in", you will have
given your Pay-Pal user ID and password to a thief, who will then use it to
access your real Pay-Pal site and clean you out, possibly to the tune of
thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Anyone who is "on the net" will get these "notices" from Pay-Pal,
E-Bay and
dozens of banks (with which they may not even have accounts). They are
phony, and they do not actually come from the institutions. You ***MUST***
be aware of this and learn to understand that ALL of these a fraudulent
attempts to commit theft of your identity. If you ever fall for even just
one of these, you will be paying for and going through a living hell for a
LONG time, perhaps years.
The bottom line here is that if you get an E-Mail from an institution with a
link, you just have to assume it's phony. If you are not sure, do not use
the link, but rather long into the site's HOME PAGE (not the link) manually,
and see if there seems to be a problem.