Posted by FCCARKANSAS on 5/31/07 6:23pm
Msg #193035

PayPal Personal Info Phishing

Be ware. I just had someone phishing pretending to be paypal. So if you have an account "heads up"!

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 5/31/07 6:33pm
Msg #193038

Faith
I get these all the time, plus from e-bay and amazon, and even from banks I don't have an account with.
If you put your mouse over the link in the e-mail without clicking on it you can tell it is phishing.
I just forward the paypal ones, complete with headers to [e-mail address]

Reply by marsal48 on 5/31/07 6:39pm
Msg #193039

Personally, I hope they can track those scoundrels down & prosecute them for all they are worth. There are a lot people out there that aren't savvy enough to know that this is going on, and they are the ones getting taken.

Reply by Harry [NR] on 6/1/07 12:13am
Msg #193090

Re: PayPal Personal Info Phishing - Helpful Document

If you would like to learn more about a number of electronic threats, please see our free GLBA compliance training document:

http://www.notaryrotary.com/library/retrievedocument.asp?document=GLBA-Notary-Compliance-Training.pdf

Phishing is covered on page 23.

Harry

Reply by FCCARKANSAS on 6/1/07 7:18am
Msg #193107

Re: PayPal Personal Info Phishing - Helpful Document

Thanx guys. I have had them from Banks and Ebay, etc..., but I just now opened a paypal account. This is the first one of these I have received. I spend alot of time reporting these people cause it ticks me off completely! Have a great Friday.

Reply by rengel/CA on 6/1/07 12:29pm
Msg #193160

Did you get this email from the I.R.S.?

Issue Number: IR-2007-109
Inside This Issue



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IRS Warns Taxpayers of New E-mail Scams

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today alerted taxpayers to the latest versions of an e-mail scam intended to fool people into believing they are under investigation by the agency’s Criminal Investigation division.

The e-mail purporting to be from IRS Criminal Investigation falsely states that the person is under a criminal probe for submitting a false tax return to the California Franchise Board. The e-mail seeks to entice people to click on a link or open an attachment to learn more information about the complaint against them. The IRS warned people that the e-mail link and attachment is a Trojan Horse that can take over the person’s computer hard drive and allow someone to have remote access to the computer.

The IRS urged people not to click the link in the e-mail or open the attachment.

Similar e-mail variations suggest a customer has filed a complaint against a company and the IRS can act as an arbitrator. The latest versions appear aimed at business taxpayers as well as individual taxpayers.

The IRS does not send out unsolicited e-mails or ask for detailed personal and financial information. Additionally, the IRS never asks people for the PIN numbers, passwords or similar secret access information for their credit card, bank or other financial accounts.

“Everyone should beware of these scam artists,” said Kevin M. Brown, Acting IRS Commissioner. “Always exercise caution when you receive unsolicited e-mails or e-mails from senders you don’t know.”

Recipients of questionable e-mails claiming to come from the IRS should not open any attachments or click on any links contained in the e-mails. Instead, they should forward the e-mails to [e-mail address] (the instructions may be found on IRS.gov by entering the term “phishing” in the search box).

The IRS also sees other e-mail scams that involve tricking victims into revealing private personal and financial information over the Internet is known as “phishing” for information.

The IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration work with the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and various Internet service providers and international CERT teams to have the phishing sites taken offline as soon as they are reported.

Since the establishment of the mail box last year, the IRS has received more than 17,700 e-mails from taxpayers reporting more than 240 separate phishing incidents. To date, investigations by TIGTA have identified host sites in at least 27 different countries, as well as in the United States.

Other fraudulent e-mail scams try to entice taxpayers to click their way to a fake IRS Web site and ask for bank account numbers. Another widespread e-mail tells taxpayers the IRS is holding a refund (often $63.80) for them and seeks financial account information. Still another email claims the IRS’s ‘anti-fraud commission’ is investigating their tax returns.