Mar
05

Another PayPal scam website, BEWARE?


Hello,

I just received some fake message pretending to be from paypal, leading to a fake Paypal website.

However, unlike most similar scams this one was pretty smart!
I almost fall for it, allthough I am a software engineer myself…

Here is the deal:

The fake message sender will be probably: “service@https-paypal.com”

Then the contents of the email is something like that:
“PayPal rewards the best customers with generous bonuses this christmas”.

And at the end you find the link, leading to the fake site:

http://https-paypal.com

When I check who is the Administator of this fake website(in http://whois.ws)- someone “James…”, needless to say nothing to do with paypal Inc.

Thanks and BEWARE!

It’s christmas soon and such scams are epidemy…

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  1. wizzards_23 wrote on March 7th, 2010 at 10:10 am Uhr1

    Thanks for the heads up, dude.

  2. embassydiplomat wrote on March 8th, 2010 at 8:08 pm Uhr2

    Thanks for the heads up…. Happy Holidays.

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