From my experience, PayPal has it's fair share of scams.
A lot of people using stolen PayPal accounts to try to pay for stuff, etc.
My friend once received an email that claimed it was from Paypal, he was
smart enough to realize it wasn't. It asked people to "verify" their
account, because they were deleting inactive accounts. Clicking on a link
brought them to a website that asked for their user ID, password, even
credit card number and interac pin number!!

My friend and I just sat there refreshing the .txt file all the info got
dumped into (by looking at the source) and watched it fill up with
legitimate credit card numbers and paypal accounts.

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com

"jeff" wrote in message
news:ngDmb.26905$e01.57547@attbi_s02...
In article , "Dan Conti"
wrote:
Beware of a person using the name Mike Alonzo with an address in McKees
Rocks, PA. This person is buying radio equipment on eBay and then
sending
counterfeit, fraudulent cashier's checks drawn on Commerce Bank in PA.

The e-mail address he used is

and his eBay user name is : mikealonzo

If anyone has had similar dealing with this guy, or more info., please
contact me via private e-mail.

Dan


Dan,are we a BIT safer taking Pay Pal only for ebay?
Thats what I started doing
How have you been?

Jeff
Ham Station

Yeh, and the "Bay of "E", too! had folks fishing for all credit-bank info,
e-bay loggins, passwords, ect, saying going to freeze account, if don't
submit (and same crap from Paypal)! Best thing can tell you : 1), Never
answer these (in fact, services will bluntly tell you, they NEVER REQUEST
SUCH INFO)! , and 2)
MAKE SURE you report these "requests", and send copy of the request(s) to
the services, at their appeopriate addresses, along with the FULL PROPERTIES
, of the a**holes Senders address!
This only way to protect self from those fishing to Identity theft/ fraud.
Jim NN7K




"Mike Beauchamp" wrote in message
...
From my experience, PayPal has it's fair share of scams.
A lot of people using stolen PayPal accounts to try to pay for stuff, etc.
My friend once received an email that claimed it was from Paypal, he was
smart enough to realize it wasn't. It asked people to "verify" their
account, because they were deleting inactive accounts. Clicking on a link
brought them to a website that asked for their user ID, password, even
credit card number and interac pin number!!

My friend and I just sat there refreshing the .txt file all the info got
dumped into (by looking at the source) and watched it fill up with
legitimate credit card numbers and paypal accounts.

Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com

"jeff" wrote in message
news:ngDmb.26905$e01.57547@attbi_s02...
In article , "Dan Conti"
wrote:
Beware of a person using the name Mike Alonzo with an address in McKees
Rocks, PA. This person is buying radio equipment on eBay and then
sending
counterfeit, fraudulent cashier's checks drawn on Commerce Bank in PA.

The e-mail address he used is

and his eBay user name is : mikealonzo

If anyone has had similar dealing with this guy, or more info., please
contact me via private e-mail.

Dan


Dan,are we a BIT safer taking Pay Pal only for ebay?
Thats what I started doing
How have you been?

Jeff
Ham Station

"Jim" wrote in message
...
Yeh, and the "Bay of "E", too! had folks fishing for all credit-bank
info,
e-bay loggins, passwords, ect, saying going to freeze account, if don't
submit (and same crap from Paypal)! Best thing can tell you : 1), Never
answer these (in fact, services will bluntly tell you, they NEVER REQUEST
SUCH INFO)! , and 2)
MAKE SURE you report these "requests", and send copy of the request(s) to
the services, at their appeopriate addresses, along with the FULL
PROPERTIES
, of the a**holes Senders address!
This only way to protect self from those fishing to Identity theft/ fraud.
Jim NN7K


Both ebay and PayPal tell you to FORWARD, un-edited, the complete e-mail to
one of the following:




They will verify your forward, and, later, verify whether or not the
suspicious e-mail originated from them or not (I've never had an affirmative
verification).

I've forwarded emails from bidders trrying to use stolen credit cards to
ebay, and left feedback saying that they were from Indonesia and using
stolen credit cards, but it still seems to take ebay just long enough for
the guy to actually rip someone off before the account is deleted.

Mike

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"Jim" wrote in message
...
Yeh, and the "Bay of "E", too! had folks fishing for all credit-bank
info,
e-bay loggins, passwords, ect, saying going to freeze account, if don't
submit (and same crap from Paypal)! Best thing can tell you : 1),
Never
answer these (in fact, services will bluntly tell you, they NEVER
REQUEST
SUCH INFO)! , and 2)
MAKE SURE you report these "requests", and send copy of the request(s)
to
the services, at their appeopriate addresses, along with the FULL
PROPERTIES
, of the a**holes Senders address!
This only way to protect self from those fishing to Identity theft/
fraud.
Jim NN7K


Both ebay and PayPal tell you to FORWARD, un-edited, the complete e-mail
to
one of the following:




They will verify your forward, and, later, verify whether or not the
suspicious e-mail originated from them or not (I've never had an
affirmative
verification).