Comments on: almost killed by fraud http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/ You have to visit this geeky girl's blog. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:26:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: anna http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17436 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:26:02 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17436 Be careful forwarding these emails on. Hit copy and paste and NOT the forward button. I got one today from paypal and it corrupted the computers’ system (on two computers). I couldn’t access anything, even the reboot went straight to the ctrl alt delete screen.
Managed to get back up using the windows disk but the other computer still has issues even after two system restores.
I let paypal know so they stop asking for the email to be forwarded – hopefully.

]]> By: Jenny http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17435 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:43:24 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17435 u didnt know it was junk mail? i thought gmail automatically put that into spam. but you prolly dont use that. wow. yea. those are always junk mails.

]]> By: Maggie http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17434 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:11:54 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17434 I get so many of these fake emails from paypal and ebay I don’t even know what to do with them lol. I know what you mean though I’ve almost fallen for it a few times when I wasn’t really paying attention. Now I get so many that I figure if ebay is going to really close my account they can go ahead I’ll just sign up again. I just throw everything away that hasn’t been blocked by my email already. Unless of course its something to do with something I just bought. Then of course I’m ready for it :)

]]> By: Kachii http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17433 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:47:42 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17433 Gmail spam filters out this kind of stuff for me. Not that I’d fall for it anyway. I have had ones from ebay and paypal in my spam box though.

]]> By: Extremelee http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17432 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:01:49 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17432 I’m always surprised at how many people fall for those scams. It’s because you’re stupid, please don’t think that, it’s very clever how they do it. But as an IT Professional, it’s my job to keep on top of these security issues and I often forget that your average internet user simply doesn’t have that knowledge.

I’m pleased that you didn’t fall for it. Hope your heart slows back down to normal again soon.

BTW, before I go.. I’m a tech admin for your ISP and was just wondering if you could confirm your wordpress username and password for me please :)

]]> By: Anna http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17431 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:23:09 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17431 What a mofo. I don’t evet trust anyone with emails like that, but I guess you do have an eBay account, if I’m right. I remember I got a bogus from Paypal once as well. I hope everything is ok and that little punk recieves his karma.

-Anna

]]> By: leah http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17430 Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:38:19 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17430 Holy Crap. It’s funny, the first thing I noticed reading the email was the web address wasn’t ebay.com it was iebayi I’m so happy you didn’t turn in that info, it’s amazing how they can do stuff like this.. and horrible, I hope they take the site they are doing this from off… the iebayi site… anyway, I’m so glad you didn’t do it! That would have flipped me out too.

]]> By: Liz http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17429 Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:32:10 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17429 Ohh, that IS scary! I keep getting emails from ‘PayPal’ and they keep asking me to update my account and stuff and I know right away it’s not them. I’ve never fallen for it. I always look at the URL, even though sometimes it’s SO close to being paypal. It usually says like user.paypal.com/cgi-bin/blahblahblah… so the user part looks like it’s PayPal but it doesn’t. I would advise everyone to read the PayPal tips and Ebay stuff too. Just to be safe.

You are so lucky that you didn’t give it all out! Man, that would be soo scary! Glad you’re ok though! *hugs*

]]> By: Mush http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17428 Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:26:58 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17428 I have gotten into the habit of forwarding any and all email that appears to be from eBay or Paypal to spoof@ebay.com immediately. It’s just easier.

Glad you didn’t give your info away – - nice save!

]]> By: Jeannie http://pure-essence.net/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17427 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:59:25 +0000 http://regretless.com/archives/2005/09/28/almost-killed-by-fraud/#comment-17427 I received an e-mail like that too! I was going to click around, but I decided not to because I thought it would be a fake. So lucky that you didn’t fill it out though, that would have been so crazy.

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