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Welcome to the Viruswarning forums. All your original content has been ported to the new forums as well as new content and additional opportunities to interact with the authors of Viruswarn.com. You can always access old content at www.leedrake.com/forum . You may find some formatting was lost in the conversion and the older versions of the posts to be more readable....
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Lee Drake
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| 05/25/2003 6:43 PM |
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| What is it?
A number of list subscribers, and at least one of my email addresses have received an email that looks like it comes from paypal asking for you to "renew" your credit card number and bank account info on your Paypal account. The email has fields to fill in that allow you to type in information about your credit card number and bank account info, and hit a submit button.
The email appears to use real paypal images in its links to make you believe it's legit. The return address is even a paypal email address. Here is the text of the message:
Dear PayPal Customer
This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.
The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.
Please confirm your email address and and Credit Card info number by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:
{A form follows here with a request for your full name, paypal password, bank account info, ATM PIN, credit card number and type, and a submit button}
Paypal would NEVER solicit your financial information in this manner. One of the clues is that it asks for your ATM pin number - NEVER EVER give that out to anyone, even IF they have a secure site. There is no reason for a vendor to require your ATM Pin ID unless it's the bank itself. Even that should only be filled in on the bank's site.
What should you do?
If you have any doubts about the status of your paypal account, go to paypal's site and log in to check it's status. Only fill in information about your account using paypal's forms, and never a click through from an email. The site itself is pretty easy to fake.
Never give out your Bank info and your ATM ID. Ever.
Never fill in a password for any secure site on an email or on a form that you got to by clicking from an email.
If you did type in your info and send it already, don't be embarrassed - call your bank, your credit card company and pay-pal right away and get your accounts locked, changed or cancelled.
For more information:
About Paypal security info:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fraud-prevention-outside
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/verification-faq-outside
FTC's information about fraud:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/infosecurity/
This concludes this viruswarning notice dated 5/25/2003.
For past archives of viruswarning files see:
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Lee Drake
Aztek Computer Solutions, Inc.
39 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
the human side of computing
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