PayPal has a new ploy to get money out of you.

[lelu19uk]

I thought this would be of interest to people.

 

Yesterday I recieved an email on an old Paypal account.

I have been disputing the charges on this account for 3 years.

IQOR have tried and sent it back to Paypal.

 

Some history.

 

Ebay did a chargeback on an item that someone collected and then told me a month later that it didnt work.

In all the pictures it worked.

I refused to give refund and cancelled my bank card.

They have been chasing me ever since.

 

So fast forward to yesterday.

 

I received an email stating that I had sent money to a' Lucy Atzintok' on the 7th June.

A total of £60.23 (funny enough the amount of money they have been chasing me for).

Email stated if I hadnt sent the payment to log onto my account.

Out of curiousity I tried to log on to be met with the official PayPal page stating they wanted to confirm my identity.

Funny enough they wanted my card details.

 

What a joke of a company!

[unclebulgaria67]

I thought this would be of interest to people.

 

Yesterday I recieved an email on an old Paypal account. I have been disputing the charges on this account for 3 years. IQOR have tried and sent it back to Paypal.

 

Some history. Ebay did a chargeback on an item that someone collected and then told me a month later that it didnt work. In all the pictures it worked. I refused to give refund and cancelled my bank card. They have been chasing me ever since.

 

So fast forward to yesterday. I received an email stating that I had sent money to a' Lucy Atzintok' on the 7th June. A total of £60.23 (funny enough the amount of money they have been chasing me for). Email stated if I hadnt sent the payment to log onto my account. Out of curiousity I tried to log on to be met with the official PayPal page stating they wanted to confirm my identity. Funny enough they wanted my card details.

 

What a joke of a company!

 

Be very careful here.

I don't know what the score is with Paypal security,

but there are many bogus emails being issued that actually don't come from Paypal.

It is possible that at some point your info may have leaked to fraudsters who have generated the email, asking you to log on via a link.

 

If you used the link, it looks legit, but actually it is not Paypal you are linked to.

 

If you search online about fake Paypal emails there are loads of reports.

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

You must contact paypal asap there is fraudulent activity at present, you would also be well advised to contact 'action fraud' who will assist.

[ericsbrother]

Did you log in via the link? If so, it is a phishing site, made to look like paypal but in fact run by the Russian mafia and designed to gather your card details and take all of the money you have from your bank account for ever. RUN AWAY FROM THAT PAGE

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

Did you log in via the link? If so, it is a phishing site, made to look like paypal but in fact run by the Russian mafia and designed to gather your card details and take all of the money you have from your bank account for ever. RUN AWAY FROM THAT PAGE

 

''Russian Maffia'' any evidence of this?

[renegadeimp]

I fyou clicked a phishing link, i would advise disabling system restore, disconnecting from the net ( pull out the cable) and run multiple DEEP scans on your computer, as keyloggers or trojans can easily be background downloaded onto your machine.

[ericsbrother]

Many of these phishing scams originate in Russia, Singapore, Lithuania and Nigeria. It has been published info for a while that they have been very busy in this for ages.

[renegadeimp]

Many do, but generalising them doesnt do anyone any good. The fact is NOBODY knows where they come from, as it is all too easy to hide your IP, and use various proxy services to block a whois search or even a reverse DNS lookup.

[johnym]

I recently had a PayPal email notification stating I had paid Skype £30odd. It was the best phishing email I have seen to date. It had my name in it and everything looked legit, compared it to an actual PayPal email and it was identical. It wasn’t until I hovered over the links and I found out it was a fake, and then I released it came to the email address not linked to my PayPal account lol.

[JOHNINYORK]

I know that it is slightly off topic,nothing to do with PAYPAL.But another email that you have to watch out for is the one from Cheshire Police.If you get this one,which I did several weeks ago,it takes over your computer.In other words,your computer becomes locked.

The only way to remove the lock,is to pay Cheshire Police the fine of £100 via WESTERN UNION or UKASH.This what you are lead to believe,but you can clear it yourself.

The fine is for looking at prohibited sites such as CHILD PORNOGRAPHY,YOU TUBE copyright,etc,etc.

I have read where people have fallen for this [problem],paid the FINE and the computer is still locked.

This virus has the ability scan all your details,even to take over your web cam and send you a picture of yourself.

This virus can ride piggy back on a site that you are looking at,it could happen here one day,I hope not.So,if you see a small document that has downloaded,you do not know what it is,DELETE IT.DO NOT OPEN IT.

 

Regards,John.

Edited June 9, 2013 by JOHNINYORK

[renegadeimp]

I like those sort of scams john. It enables me to see where the flaws in my security lie. If my system ever gets locked, i smile, boot into linux or use hiren boot cd, scan and remove the virus, and then secure the hole it found.

[JOHNINYORK]

It would not let me open anything,even in safe mode,the computer just kept rebooting.

I found several sites that gave you the information for removing the virus.To cut a long story short,into SAFE MODE WITH COMMAND PROMPT quickly,create a new user account.I then scanned the computer with Malwarebytes and Super anti spyware,this brought up a Trojan and a Worm.Once cleared,go back into my original account and scan again.No problem since then.

 

Regards,John.

[dx100uk]

combofix boot from a penstick with your network cable connected

 

dx

[JOHNINYORK]

Renegadeimp/DX100uk.

 

Thanks for your useful tips.

But in some cases,

a computer can become a brick,

so one would have to have these antivirus programs already loaded up onto a penstick.

 

By what I have read about this virus

,it has several levels of severity.

In its mildest form,

you can do a system restore.

 

But in its severest form,

it is a complete scan with an external anti virus scan,

as DX has mentioned.

 

There were examples of solutions like altering the registry,

which I presume are not for the faint hearted,like me.

 

When I was infected,my level was one below the severest.

 

Maybe this is why I was concerned about receiving an email from the Canadian office of Wonga,as mentioned in a previous post.

 

I did not know if any of my emails had been read.I do not keep any info what so ever on my computer,

but that virus attack might have enabled someone to read my emails.

 

Well,the computer is ok now.

 

I do not want this thread to become computer repair forum

 

.But,with all the various topics on this site

 

,there is nothing in relation to S.C.A.M.S that are committed via the internet

 

.For once,I have got that word onto the site,

 

without it being shown as [problem].

 

Regards,John.

Edited June 11, 2013 by JOHNINYORK

[dx100uk]

simple fact is never browse the internet with an account that has ADMIN rights

 

end off

 

dx

[san_d]

simple fact is never browse the internet with an account that has ADMIN rights

 

end off

 

dx

This might not be enough. You could have a keylogger running and it will still run in the background. Ultimate peace is of mind is to run a Linux live image form a usb pen.

[renegadeimp]

You can only call it piece of mind to run linux because there are so many version of it, that it is futile for developers to create a virus for the platform.

[Conniff]

You can only call it piece of mind to run linux because there are so many version of it, that it is futile for developers to create a virus for the platform.

 

And there's only 3 people using it

[JOHNINYORK]

I do not know what has happened to previous post,paragraphs and sentences are all over the place.

To be completely honest,on a scale from 0 to 10,my computer literacy would be about 1.

 

Regards,John.

[san_d]

You can only call it piece of mind to run linux because there are so many version of it, that it is futile for developers to create a virus for the platform.

It's not just about being virus free. It's also because with a so called live image, if you get a virus, when you reboot it's gone.

[san_d]

And there's only 3 people using it

Maybe only 3 that you know. And by the way if you have a router, a smartphone or a tablet, that runs some version of Linux.

 

Not to mention consumeractiongroup.co.uk runs on Linux:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=consumeractiongroup.co.uk

[Conniff]

Maybe only 3 that you know. And by the way if you have a router, a smartphone or a tablet, that runs some version of Linux.

 

Not to mention consumeractiongroup.co.uk runs on Linux:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=consumeractiongroup.co.uk

 

It was supposed to be a joke, hence the smiley. If you are up on these thing San-d, why not do a thread on it here http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?261-Technical-Computer-IT-Console-SatNav-Questions

especially how Linux can be tried without having to install it.

[renegadeimp]

Reason most websites run on a linux box is simply because its cheap.