topic Re: Fraudulent email in Buying

Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:56:50 GMT

Just received an email supposedly from Paypal - notified me of a payment for $69.99 made to nerd _toolshop@bigpnd.com. I checked my Paypal a/c and no such payment. I stupidly clicked onto the transaction no. in blue print and it did something because I couldnt get back into my email a/c. I have changed passwords on everything now. Is there anything else I should do? I guess they have had access to all the info on my webmail page. Freaking out!!!

Paypal checked the seller name and the transaction no. - of course all fake - my antivirus said all well. I am thinking this has come about from the chinese scammers that I purchased from recently.

Re: Fraudulent email

lyndal1838 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:10:31 GMT

It is not necessarily anything to do with your recent purchase.

Most members get something like this even without having made any suspect purchases.

Just remember NEVER to click on a link in an email. If you get an email about something that you don't remember, log into paypal to check that all is well. If there is nothing in there just forward the email to spoof@paypal or spoof@ebay as the case may be.

Then delete the email.

Re: Fraudulent email

twyngwyn — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:10:38 GMT

We all get them ALL THE TIME....just send to: spoof@paypal and delete

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:22:33 GMT

ok thx - Ive never had it happen before and onlyconnected it to my recent stuff up because it said it was Hongkong and they have my email address and postal address now. It said it was an ebay purhase so they know I'm a buyer. Interesting experience yet again and time consuming changing everything. I am concerned they had access to all info in my webmail pages.

Re: Fraudulent email

lyndal1838 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:30:14 GMT

As far as knowing you are a buyer goes....it was just a good guess.

I get just as many emails refering to the items I am selling when I have never sold anything on ebay...ever.

As long as you don't click on any links in the email or indicate that they have a live email address you do not need to change passwords etc.

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:56:48 GMT

Lyndal, it was weird because the minute I saw it I didnt click on the link but went to Paypal through my browser and logged in to my a/c and n record of payment. Decided it was weird so called Paypal and got recorded message saying system undergoing a problem and call back later. I went back to the email and thought Paypal system glitch had perhaps sent this by way of error. Thats when I clicked the transaction ID link and my email was compromised - I couldnt change my password or get back in - fixed now and heres hoping thats the end of it. Another lesson for me - never agian!!

Re: Fraudulent email

harley_babes_hoard — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:58:15 GMT

It's just the lastest one doing the rounds at the moment.

Re: Fraudulent email

lyndal1838 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:52:18 GMT

If you have managed to survive ebay for more than 2 years and this is the first of these emails you have received then you are very lucky.

Just don't think too much about them and remember the golden rule.....never click on a link in a strange email.

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:58:02 GMT

Thx so much - I can sleep now and not be stresssing - a narrow escape.

Re: Fraudulent email

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:58:52 GMT

Don't get too relaxed, wait until you have done a deep security check on your computer, I use Housecall at least once a month regardless of anything suspicious. You need to be extra careful over the coming months as they now have an active email address and lists of those are bought and sold by scammers worldwide.

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:59:33 GMT

thx for that - I didnt think it wuld be a simple matter and I had n clue on what to do so your advice is extremely valuable. It came frm Baltimore I discovered. I ahvent heard of housecall but I'll get nt it now. Really appreciate the advice.

Re: Fraudulent email

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 03:02:27 GMT

Try Malwarebytes Antimalware. It is also very good. There's another one I use called Rogue Killer but you have to know what you're doing with that one or you could break your computer.

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:41:13 GMT

TT - thats what Ive used - cleaned out 514 threats - hope I'm all secure now.

Re: Fraudulent email

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 06:10:23 GMT

514? WOW! If nothing else, your computer should be running a bit faster!

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:03:44 GMT

yep - impressive haha

Re: Fraudulent email

doobelly — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:36:17 GMT

They sure are damn busy bass-tuds!

The first one freaked me out (I'm sure it was that tool thingy place too) but paypal said not to worry; just forward to them.

Now I immediately delete when I see them and, BTW, I have never visited, let alone bought anything, from a Chinese site, and I never will. It is simply not worth the risk and it all looks mostly like nasty junk anyway...I've seen the things come up in ebay's "suggestions".

Re: Fraudulent email

trudy66 — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 03:48:22 GMT

I'm wary too DB but the listing had the item as held in Chifley ACT. Ive certainly become a much wiser Ebayer in the last couple of weeks and much of the new knowledge is thanks tot the generosity of the forum members on here.

Re: Fraudulent email

cathyjoyjoy — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:39:34 GMT

What is "cleaned out 514 threats"?

Re: Fraudulent email

go-tazz — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 01:28:40 GMT

@cathyjoyjoy wrote:
What is "cleaned out 514 threats"?

It's the terms used by a anti spyware and anti virus programs to denote how many "threats" were found and

cleaned,(removed from their computer).

A high number of them could be something as simple as tracking cookies as some programs see them as spam.

Once you've run one of the programs it will generally give you a list of "threats" that they have removed,(so you

can see whether there was anything malicious running on your device).

The main threats when "attacked" are Trojans and Keyloggers,(both can infiltrate a system and it will allow the

ones behind the attack to check what happens on the device and take advantage of your info).

The other one is phishing Emails to tempt you to click on a malicious link so that you give them your details

and passwords whithout realizing,

Re: Fraudulent email

andstyle13 — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:42:23 GMT

I haven't read all these comments so the likelihood of what I'm about to say just might be repetitive. But because I've dealt with these spam emails for 2 years now, there are some things you need to be aware of. If your name is not mentioned at the start of the email it is a scam. Pay Pal will address your name. Secondly redirect the email to phishing@paypal.com
Lastly check your PayPal account
Once you have done this delete the email but never click on their link