Identity Theft vs. Fake Email Requests

I always get the ones for Paypal that send you to a site like http://www.pay-pal.com or http://secure.paypl.com These frauds are getting more and more common.

-Showtime8000

Just for the sake of argument, since this is still on the front page. These email's can be from any company. Ebay, Yahoo, Hotmail, Bestbuy, Sears, Paypal, Microsoft, Norton, McAffee, you name, if it involves money, it has already been, or will be faked.

Protect yourself , just something I wrote earlier this year on the subject.

Be safe and stay free

Have you tought of contacting eBay, maybe they'd be interested in hearing about such mail, they could possibly release some sort of statement to those who aren't aware of identity theft and such matters? I think you should e-mail them..

jag291

I completley agree with you Jaguar291. Rest assured I contacted them. I received a thanks letter, and they replied with," We have posted this several times on our site."
They supplied a url...it is here. Not sure if you have to be logged in to view this link. If you do just follow the Announcments link off the front page. It is at the bottom. Just find on page ,
"***Protect Yourself From Spoof Emails*** " Or Scroll down to Aug. 14th.

I personally believe they aren't pushing it enough. These corporate screwballs could email this to every single account registered with them. They could make a big deal out of this. But putting this BIG problem on the front page would destroy that fake security blanket they have spent so much time to create. I am personally done waiting on big coorperations to protect me. Prtoect yourself. Share the knowledge.

/rant

Here's another scam. If you use aol. You get an email saying you have a secret admirer.(very aluring for us single peaple) You have recieved an instakiss click this link to recieve your instakiss. You are then taken to a web page that is an exact copy of AOL's log inscreen if you log in from a none AOL account. Enter your log in details and spam will fly from your account like a bat out of hell.

I no from experience.