Report Fake PayPal Emails & Sites To PayPal
As a user of PayPal you would receive a bit of fake-PayPal spam and spoof sites. Most of the time you’ll delete, ignore and take measures so to not get any more. However, it’s a nice idea to give PayPal a heads up so they can do something about it too.
Simply forward all fake paypal emails to spoof@paypal.com and then delete them. Such emails usually have lots of spelling mistakes, with masked links where the url text is different from the fraud sites they lead to, and ask you for your passwords in an attempt for identity theft. It takes a few seconds more, but it will help stop fraud.
Report Fake Phishing Paypal Emails and Spoof Sites to Paypal – [QuickOnlineTips]
Also PayPal provides some good information on recognizing fake PayPal emails and websites.
Phishing Guide – [PayPal]
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John C. says on August 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 am
Is there a way to send known spoofs to eBay/PayPal without getting the multiple automated replies (telling you that they know what you already know)? I’m thinking like spoof-silent@paypal.com? I’m willing to help them ferret out these spoof sites, but I don’t need the return spam. I’ve asked the question of them but never got an answer.
Cody Frisch says on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 am
Last time i attempted to report something to them I got an email back saying “its not our concern, report the abuse to the hosting ISP”. That was a year ago. But at that point I just closed out all paypal/ebay related activities and have never looked back. I’m glad to see they changed policies, but its too little too late for me.
notimeforthat says on August 6th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Dont bother reporting it. I got back a couple form-emails related to some other subject. Either created by a key-word searching program or a human in India who has never seen paypal. Just delete the spam in the first place and forget about it. Move on to something worthwhile.
stas bekman says on August 6th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
This advice won’t do any good, other than you wasting your time. Because:
1) people don’t get your email filtered by paypal. If you really want to participate in the goodness of collaborative filtering, join http://cloudmark.com/ (free) or use a server solution http://mailchannels.com/, which uses the former.
2) all those attacks are very short-lived – the spammers set-up a site for a couple of hours and then remove it, so reporting it to paypal is again not very useful.
It sounds like paypal is trying to look useful, whereas instead they could really help by offering real solutions, like educating people about cloudmark (see the link above).
joe f beard says on January 9th, 2009 at 5:45 am
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From: “PayPal” Add sender to ContactsTo: undisclosed-recipients
Dear member,
This email confirms that you have paid orders@dell.com $699.99 USD using PayPal.
This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as “PAYPAL *DELL INC”.
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Purchased From:Dell.Inc
Item # Item Title Quantity $669.95 USD $669.95 USD
250016390196 New Dell Inspiron 1520 Notebook Computer (Core Duo T5450 1.66GHz//2GB) Laptop
Shipping & Handling via USPS First Class Mail to 154XX
(includes any seller handling fees) $19.16 USD
Shipping Insurance (optional): —
Sales Tax (6.000% inPA) : $10.88 USD
Total: $699.99 USD
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Shipping Info: Wayne E Bakewell
16 elm st
Brownsville, PA 15417
United States
Address Status: Confirmed
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