KyleMassacre Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 This is a heads up but I'm sure 99.9% of you can spot a phishing scam but I just got an email from "PayPal" saying my account will be closed until I provide my information and they hear from me. The email came from a "[email protected]" so be on the look out for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonStopCoding Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Wow they did not even bother to make the logo look professional or anything like PayPal logo but thanks for the head up if i got it would bin it straight away doesn't even look legit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRB Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Wow they did not even bother to make the logo look professional or anything like PayPal logo but thanks for the head up if i got it would bin it straight away doesn't even look legit Some emails don't automatically download remote images... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleMassacre Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Wow they did not even bother to make the logo look professional or anything like PayPal logo but thanks for the head up if i got it would bin it straight away doesn't even look legit Some emails don't automatically download remote images... Correct, it went directly to my spam box so images, files, and links are all dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonStopCoding Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 oh yea sorry should of known that haha well still thanks for heads up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seker Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Until they "here" from you.... Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleMassacre Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Until they "here" from you.... Lol You know [MENTION=68886]Seker[/MENTION] I didn't even realize that lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAMINK Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Pretty obvious scam i thought. Way to many capitals and spelling mistakes. I religiously check all emails for the correct send address. Even then i dont use email links to go anywhere ever. If it was paypal i would just go to paypal manually. I find it interesting, if i was to pretend to be someone else to scam money in real life i would be in deep crap however these people online seem to get away without a care in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleMassacre Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 I agree, I don't click links in email unless it's a trusted source like someone I'm expecting a link from like some repo or something. And I also check the sent from and reply to since a lot of scam artist use a reply to email address and fake the from address. This does make me think though, is this a lucrative business that people set out to do? I figure that this wouldn't be very good on generated income though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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