Archive for the ‘Scam Trend’ Category

A PayPal Phishing Attempt Yesteday

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Each time I receive an email from "PayPal" claiming that my account has been limited, my heart drops to my stomach, EVEN THOUGH I suspect that it is a phishing attempt. I do not feel at ease until I log into my PayPal account and see no pop up message ...

eBay Phising Attempt

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

After getting the PayPal phishing mail, I received an eBay phishing mail pulak.... Check this screenshot. First thing that alerted me was that this email was sent to "undisclosed-recipients". A real email from eBay will always be sent to the email that you have registered your account with. The first line ...

PayPal Phishing Attempt

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

This morning, I received a PayPal phishing attempt. It's not the first time but it has been a while that I was nearly caught off guard. LOL Yea, right! Anyway, to be sure that this was a real phishing attempt despite seeing that this email was not addressed to me ...

Gold Bar Scam In New York

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Did you read the news about the lady in Lancaster, New York, who was scammed of US$9,000, her life-savings, a couple of days ago? The news went that she was stopped in the middle of the road by a guy who wanted directions. While she was talking to him, another guy ...

All Those Trial Offers

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I am sure some of you who are looking for freebies would have been tempted to sign up with TRAIL OFFERS that promise you freebies. While some of these are genuine, let me just remind you that there are some unscrupulous companies that would give you one hell of a ...

Fake eBay Message?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

This morning, I received a message from a Buyer that was purportedly sent via eBay's messaging system. The odd thing was that the item that he was truing to pay me was for a pair of Johnny Depp socks. Now, you know that I never sell socks, don't you? So ...

Yahoo!, eBay and PayPal Collaborate

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

A few days ago, I read on Yahoo! Business that Yahoo! eBay and PayPal are joining forces to curb fraudulent, scam and phishing mail. This will create a safer environment to eBay and PayPal users who are using Yahoo! Mail. Personally, I have had many such emails falling into my ...

Stay Away From Ponzi Schemes

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Last evening, a friend told me that he received an email with a proposal to invest a sum of money in a ponzi -like scheme. Err... I told him to trash that email and stay away from schemes like that. If he wants to invest, by all means do it ...

Tsunami Scam

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Trust these scammers to be on the ball. I received an email last night from a Chinese sounding name whom I bet sent out this mail en mass. Well, apparently, we have relatives who unfortunately perished in the Tsunami tragedy BUT good news to us, the deceased left us a ...

From Greeting Cards to Private Messages

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

You probably remember me writing about receiving greeting cards from all sorts of people and I found out later that this was the latest attempt at phishing for sensitive information. Well, guess what? Now, I no longer receive these cards purportedly from my neighbours, co-workers, family members, admirers and even worshippers, ...