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| Chris:
Reported to their Web host, about.com. --Chris |
| intv:
That is a clever one - I got it about 6 weeks ago I think, so it's kind of old. I forwarded the email to PayPal as fraud, including the headers. The guy actually replied that it was safe because it had the PayPal logo and 'secure' tag line!! I'll post the email when I get home if anyone is interested. I replied and pointed out the origin of the email in the headers and told the guy they need to warn users - hell he even gave me the go ahead to submit the info! Anyway, I guess they felt it wasn't a problem... |
| MameFan:
Lets make it even easier... PAYPAL is a scam itself. It's a hugely flawed system that seems to allow massive abuse by theiving buyers and theiving sellers, leaving the good buyers and good sellers left without money or product because it was stolen by the others using their system as intended. www.paypalwarning.com www.nopaypal.com |
| Dave_K.:
Nice trojan horse. And very smart way to trick people with the username (before the @) confusing people to think its actually paypal.com domain. I'm sure this won't be up for long as its clearly illegal. They have also done a great job at concealing their identity, by using some dumba$$ Austrailian register who obviously doesn't care about who registers domain names. Here is the whois information about transaction-systems.org Domain ID:D96728996-LROR Domain Name:TRANSACTION-SYSTEMS.ORG Created On:14-Apr-2003 22:51:15 UTC Expiration Date:14-Apr-2004 22:51:15 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:R52-LROR Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED Registrant ID:52-C Registrant Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.melbourneit.com Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.melbourneit.com Registrant City:N/A Registrant Postal Code:N/A Registrant Country:CA Registrant Email:not@available.org Admin ID:52-C Admin Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR Admin Street1:Whois Server:whois.melbourneit.com Admin Street2:Referral URL:www.melbourneit.com Admin City:N/A Admin Postal Code:N/A Admin Country:CA Admin Email:not@available.org Billing ID:52-C Billing Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR Billing Street1:Whois Server:whois.melbourneit.com Billing Street2:Referral URL:www.melbourneit.com Billing City:N/A Billing Postal Code:N/A Billing Country:CA Billing Email:not@available.org Tech ID:52-C Tech Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR Tech Street1:Whois Server:whois.melbourneit.com Tech Street2:Referral URL:www.melbourneit.com Tech City:N/A Tech Postal Code:N/A Tech Country:CA Tech Email:not@available.org Name Server:NS1.GLOBAL-SERVERS.COM Name Server:NS2.GLOBAL-SERVERS.COM |
| _Iz-:
--- Quote from: intv on April 17, 2003, 11:50:04 am ---That is a clever one - I got it about 6 weeks ago I think, so it's kind of old. I forwarded the email to PayPal as fraud, including the headers. The guy actually replied that it was safe because it had the PayPal logo and 'secure' tag line!! I'll post the email when I get home if anyone is interested. I replied and pointed out the origin of the email in the headers and told the guy they need to warn users - hell he even gave me the go ahead to submit the info! Anyway, I guess they felt it wasn't a problem... --- End quote --- Are you sure you actually forwarded it to paypal and not the scam artists? Where did you get the e-mail addy? |
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