Beware of Bank Fraud

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally Posted by 1908Revelations

I got an e-mail from PayPal saying I had to verify an e-mail address added to my account. Of course I didn't add an e-mail to my account! I clicked the link ane it was really long instead of saying www.paypal.com . Then I went to the paypal website....I compared the two and noticed the diference. I forwarded the e-mail to paypal and they confirmed it was a fraud.

ETA
On regular websites you can browse different pages. On the 'Phishing' website if I clicked on anything it prompted me to log in...regardless of what I clicked on.

that happened to me too. It seemed fishy so I called PayPal and discovered it was a fake.

Originally Posted by Missam05

You can also hover over the website (and look at the bar at the bottom of your screen--if you have SBC yahoo) and see the website it will take you to. Usually those phishing scams don't have the bank/website/etc. that you're looking for FIRST. That's another way you KNOW it's not official.

That's what I did to an email I got from "Bank of America" and figured out it was fake.

[jubilance1922]

Wow, that sucks. Glad you caught it before it got worse Red6.

I get a ton of bank/ebay/paypal/amazon fake emails, but I always just delete them. I never go to a online shopping website through a link from email, I just type in the url myself.

Thanks for reminding us all that we need to be extra careful out there.

[12dn94dst]

S, I'm so sorry this happened to you! We all have dumb moments from time to time. I'm just glad you caught it before they did too much damage.

[StarFish106]

If you get fake emails from Ebay or Paypal you can always email them to

Spoof@paypal or spoof@ebay to let them know of these particular sites. They will let you know if they are the the real deal or not with a response.

Sometimes I will click on the link for the BoA just to see what comes up in my browser bar.If it isn't the one I normally use it goes to the trash bin but I usually delete without doing that.