Just got another fake PayPal email

[rcraw45425]

This phishing is really getting on my nerves! As usual I sent it oof to spoof@paypal.com and they said it was fake but I'm getting tired of people telling me my account is frozen, I'm about to lose everything and my hair is all going to fall out if I don't try their new diet pill because everyone at work is talking about me (Ha! I'm a stay at home mom now. ) I'm thinking about changing my email account!

sorry just felt like venting!

 

[Linzybrooke]

Ugh, I got those emails for months before they finally ended. I feel your pain!

 

[I'mNoPrince]

And people wonder why I have so many E-mail accounts. Things that come to that one are almost all junk ,spam or spoofs. So I don't even open or read any of them.

The one I use for the sweepstakes and sign-ups really get some crazy stuff on them.

 

[cancer_survivor_06]

I never had this problem until I started selling high dollar items. I sold a couple of strollers and several infant size disney costumes last year and after my first three listing sold the emails started coming more frequently and to top it off evidently they tried to figure out my password b/c when I logged in on ebay they froze my account and changed my password. I have never answered the emails and immediately forward them to ebay and paypal. I was so worried I got to the point that I wanted to close all of my accounts but I didn't. After about a month the emails slowed down and then stopped but they just started up again. Best of Luck.

 

[xyzabc33]

This phishing is really getting on my nerves! As usual I sent it oof to spoof@paypal.com and they said it was fake but I'm getting tired of people telling me my account is frozen, I'm about to lose everything and my hair is all going to fall out if I don't try their new diet pill because everyone at work is talking about me (Ha! I'm a stay at home mom now. ) I'm thinking about changing my email account!

sorry just felt like venting!

Vent away! got these forever it seemed like before they quit. My fav was the one telling me that my credit card was going to expire and they needed a new number.....interesting that I had just been issued a brand new card and number and expiration date bout a week before that cause I lost mine. WOW those things (CC's)dont give ya a lot of time anymore do they?

OH...I highlited that sentence because you forgot the ones about improving certain male body parts I am sure none of us woman posess.

 

[TheDuckMan]

HAHAHA.....I used to get these all the time, but for some reason they have stopped all together. I sometimes feel like forwarding all kinds of emails straight back to the sender.....

 

[WDW Poly Princess]

I hate those!

I got one recently that looked EXACTLY like the reciept you get when you make a payment through paypal, but of course it was for something I didn't buy. They obviously expect you to click it and log in to see what it was/dispute it. Yuck!

 

[rcraw45425]

Yeah, the male enhancement ones are bad too. It's to the point that with those and the ones about my lost relatives in outer Mongolia dying and leaving me 40 million, that's all I get somedays. I saw a cmmercial the other day for one of the news shows where they actually found some poor unsuspecting fool that believed that they were going to get the buck$, had sent them their info and got scammed.

 

[roxannensteve]

Even changing your email - it'll probably happen again - it eventually stops - from experience, I know.

 

[MomofKatie]

Yup, I get those fake Paypal emails all the time. They seem to come in waves- I'll go for 3 months without one, then get 7 or 8 in a week. I just forward them all to the spoof address Paypal gave me- let them take care of it.

 

[luvwinnie]

I get them almost daily. Closed my Paypal just so I could stop wondering if ANY were actually real.

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

Yikes. I've gotten some of those before. They are superly annoying.