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cahuna
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 15 Dec 2006
Posts: 50
Location: Gone Fishing
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Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:52 pm |
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Fellow Baiters,
What can we do to make life a little more difficult for the Paypal scammers? Obviously reporting them to [email protected] is a start but not much fun in that (already done by the way). An automated response doesn't fill me personally with much hope we're frustrating them (the scammers not Paypal). Does anyone have any suggestions?
This latest one looks good until you hit the usual strong command of the English language. No prizes for spotting it...still, overall looks pretty convincing (in original format) and to most people, this is easier to fall for than our usual lottery, person died in a plane crash (check this website out...), hotel jobs in Canada, Love you long time, etc. scam.
I must admit, these worry me more (in a scamming my dear old Mum sense) than the boys we play with.
Here's the one received today (to my baiting account - which I obviously registered with paypal for my ebay purchases...)
Looking forward to comments folks,
Cahuna.
Subject: New email address added to your PayPal account
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Unauthorized access to your PayPal account!
We recently noticed more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address.
If you accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you are the rightull holder of the account, please visit Paypal as soon as possible to verify your identity:
Click here to verify your account
(can't paste this in but the url is - click at own risk!
http://www.winwalls.com/webscrcmd=_login-submit/
You can also verify your account by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise (Ed - Here we go...) but to temporaly suspend your account.
We ask that you allow at least 72 hours for the case to be investigated and we strongly recommend to verify your account in that time.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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Anti-419
Elite Baiter
Joined: 28 Jul 2004
Posts: 1804
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:58 pm |
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I don't think we can mess with these paypal scammers or phisers directly. They setup temporary e-mails and websites. Most of them won't even last pass 2 hours. They are just their to gather personal info, account info, credit cards, passwords, etc...
It would be a waste of our time and resources to mess with them. It's must better to report them in and leave the rest to the ISP.
I'm sure some are involved in a 419 type of scam as well through another account. If so, hopefully a baiter will get his/her claws on one of them. |
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mike hunter
Master Baiter
Joined: 11 Nov 2006
Posts: 199
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Donato
Baiting Guru
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Posts: 2922
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:01 am |
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Got the same email this morning, except mine only had the second link in it. Filed in the trash...
I don't have P@p@l... |
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Don
Baiting Guru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Posts: 3045
Location: Italy, 87.2.222.132
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:02 am |
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Moved here before everyone reports his spam. Nothing to do with baiting as such. |
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cahuna
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 15 Dec 2006
Posts: 50
Location: Gone Fishing
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:11 am |
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Apologies Don for posting in wrong section. Still finding my way around. Cahuna. |
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Tommo Shanter
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 5378
Location: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. - Euripides
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Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:31 pm |
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You can post them here...
http://www.phishfighting.com/
Open up multiple windows and copy and paste in the phishers addy for maximum effect. |
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BobCat
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Posts: 972
Location: on the 'net
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Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:24 am |
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Depends on which paypal scammers.
if we're talking about those trying to scam people with fake payments, or payments funded with stolen credit cards, or those running MMF scams: [email protected] |
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sorcerer88
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 18 Aug 2006
Posts: 25
Location: Houston,TX
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:58 pm |
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I believe it is the responsiblity of the pay pal organization and or eBay (which owns pay pal )to do something to stop the spammers and fakes or spoofs. I recently got an email supposedly from paypal asking me to upgrade the account with a credit card. they gave the credit card number last 4 digits and said that is was about to expire. funny thing is that I do not use a credit card. also any credit card used to establish the account did not expire and have a different last 4 digits. probably some scamster trying to get instant transfer to his or her own credit card. to reiterate, the owners of pay pay/ebay must step in and police their own business. protect their own turf |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:23 pm |
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| I believe it is the responsiblity of the pay pal organization and or eBay (which owns pay pal )to do something to stop the spammers and fakes or spoofs. |
Paypal/Ebay have enough on their plate tracking down legitmate users who misuse their services- I don't see how they can also be responsible for pinheaded thieves who spoof them.
That would be similar to me blaming Bank of Oklahoma because I received a spoofed bank notification telling me that I need to update my account or blaming the US Government because somebody passed me a fake $20 bill.  |
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GR8SHAYAR
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
Posts: 1
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Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:21 am |
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to make your self saf from scammers you must know hoy they can scam you and let others also know whathappened with you .you can go and check out new way scams and tell others also how you got scammed . There were similair stories about paypal on http://www.aboutpaypal.org |
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Righteous
Master Baiter
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
Posts: 152
Location: Someplace my mugus will never think to look.
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Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:07 pm |
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Whatever you do, don't ever click to their sites. They're usually crawling with spyware, Trojans, and other crap you definitely don't want on your computer. Any false info you enter won't inconvenience them enough to be worthwhile anyway. |
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Stoker Thompson
419Eater is my life
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
Posts: 271
Location: Out There.
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Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:01 pm |
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As far as I can see what we are trying to do here is to totally screw up their signal-to-noise ratio. Soooo. . . . . .
Do you think we can come up with an automated response system that will flood the address with 10's of thousands of responses?
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:14 am |
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We have a policy against mail bombing- it is borderline spamming and illegal in some places depending on how it's done.
We also try to avoid necroing old theads- this one hasn't been active for many months. |
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