It seems that these rip of artists are actually targeting people in their own countries. Peter of Huttriver8, who I know lives in New Zealand, sent me this particular one. They’re obviously hoping that the recipient panics and clicks that link which will take them to as site that looks like real but is only there to get their details. It’s an obvious phishing exercise and you shouldn’t fall for it.
I’ve left the link active so that you can hover over it with your mouse, don’t click it whatever you do, just so you can see the link isn’t taking you to the PayPal site at all.
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People need to stop falling for these things. Paypal never tells anyone stuff like this, and if people pay attention they’ll realize that.
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BS Artist reply on March 15th, 2010:
There’s a lot of newbies out there Mitch, and I reckon there are more born every day. These are the people that fall for these phishing scams. Fortunately some of the check on the Internet first and some of those land on this blog.
I reckon I’ve saved a few people since this blog went live and that makes it all worth while.
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peter petterson reply on March 16th, 2010:
You are right about this, Mitch. Thats why I sent it to Sire so other people get to learn about it, and also that no genuine site asks for your personal details such as name and password.
Peter
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