Dont get scammed by a fake website

[Raulandpinboy]

Just a little help on how scams work.

Okay so you have a paypal account, and you get a email telling you to update your credit account information, and there on the bottom is a link to the paypal site.

Wow when you get to the paypal site, it looks like the paypal site perfect down to the log in sheet.

You figure this is for real because they only want you to log in, they are not asking for your mothers maiden name, name of your pet, your child... nothing.

Well the scammers have figured out that if they ask you for all that stuff you will get suspicious and run. So now all they want is your log on name and password.

Once they have that, they can log on and get the information themselves.

You log on and use your user-name and password. Well they record that info for later use, and forward you to the real paypal site, well you have to log on again, but you think nothing of it because you figure you typed the password wrong. so you log on again and forget about it.

Later that night while you are asleep they are downloading your information off paypal because you gave them the user name and password.

So how can you be sure you are at a real paypal, or eBay?

Easy... Scammers want your information, so if you are a site that looks real but you are not sure... [font color=red size=5]Enter the wrong password[/font]

If its a real site you will get a We're sorry you entered the wrong password message, when they try to confirm it.

A fake site will accept it thinking thats the correct password. So when you enter the wrong password, and the site seem to log you on, guess what folks its a fake site get out and close it fast.

This will work for now until the bad guys re-figure it out, and add a routine in the fake websites that will tell you that you entered a wrong password, and to please reenter it, most people will thing nothing, or that they did enter the wrong password, and just re-enter it not thinking or realizing its a fake site.

Also look at the address bar, and make sure the site you are at says Https//paypal.com. The key is Https the S means its a secured site.

There hope this helps

 

[Live_From_Little_Red]

This will work for now until the bad guys re-figure it out, and add a routine in the fake websites that will tell you that you entered a wrong password, and to please reenter it, most people will thing nothing, or that they did enter the wrong password, and just re-enter it not thinking or realizing its a fake site.

Thankfully the people who run these scams are not necessarily smart; mostly script-kiddies. Verifying someone's info while you have them on the hook would be simple.

I can think of two ways off the top of my head to verify info.

My hacker hat is white.

Brian

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

Plus, I've seen numerous news reports that eBay and Paypal spokespeople say that their sites will never send a link in e-mail when info needs to be updated.

Usually eBay, Paypal, or similar sites will only ask for updated information if a credit card has expired or for some similar reason. Instead of a link, they will ask via e-mail that the recipient go to the site themselves, log in, and make the corrections after logging in.