Gotta love paypal scammers

I've received this email 3 times so far this week, its getting so annoying.

 

My email box is full of that paypal crap..whatever you do don't respond--there trying to get passwords.

 

Got this one from Chase Bank the other day and I have never had a Chase Account or Credit Card...



Chase Bank is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information to help us provide you with secure service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Why is my account access limited?

Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):

# March 19, 2006: We would like to ensure that your account was not accessed by an unauthorized third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive Chase Bank account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

(Your case ID for this reason is CHSE04-410-320-3334.)


At Chase Bank, one of our most important responsibilities to you, our customer, is the safekeeping of the nonpublic personal ("confidential") information you have entrusted to us and using this information in a responsible manner. Appropriate use of the confidential information you provide us is also at the heart of our ability to provide you with exceptional personal service whenever you contact us.

How can I restore my account access?


Please confirm your identity here: Restore My Online Banking Account and complete the "Steps to Remove Limitations."

Completing all of the checklist items will automatically restore your account access.


Copyright © 2006 Chase Manhattan Bank Inc. All rights reserved.

 

The worst one I received was the other day. Talk about convincing. It was an email that thanked me for my $349 payment for some auction on eBay. The auction existed, and it sure looked like I had paid. I checked my account thinking someone got into my account to buy these goods. Turns out no transaction ever occurred. The email has a link for you to contest the payment. It is that link that takes you to a page requesting your login/pass for PayPal. Sneaky bastards!

 

The real problem with the Chase ones are, I have a Chase card, and Chase is my mortgage lender on one of my properties. I routinely get emails (legit) from Chase, so it is hard to tell which is which without reveiwing the headers. I have since sent anything from "chase.x" to dev/null.

 

I agree, Sneaky Bastards! Send the email to the FBI so they can examine and maybe they may investigate these spammer....

 

I'm an ISP (have been for 9 years). Sending those emails anywhere but to my honeypot so we do not get them again is the only place worth sending them. Unless you experience $5k in damages, or it is terror related the FBI is not going to do anything about it. It's a waste of time.

 

Yea, quess it would be a waste of time......
I'm quite mad at the way there getting down and dirty.....
I'm sure someone will fall for there email scam and report them than....

 

Yeah, people do fall for it. That is why they keep doing it. What I find comical over the years are the people who typically fall for the phishing scams.

They seem to be on average 45-65, well educated, many PHDs, professional people. People who seem to be very well off, intelligent, but lack common sense. Go figure.

 

Same here, I've received about two of those in the past week as a metter of fact.

 

They say IQ has nothing to do with intelligent--I think that many ppl have money dollars in there eye so common sense goes out the window.

 

Ya, phishing was up a huge 4800% in 2005 from 2004 (I received a ton of phish mail). I must admit I admired the quality of some of them, really good, some even had decent header info, think I even fell for one. I think between crackdowns by companies, better spam filtration and a flood of low quality phishers that ruined it for good phishers, this trend in scams is dying. One hasn't actually made it to my Inbox for months.

 

Looks like Microsoft is going to take a shot at them
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4825072.stm

I get the Chase one three times a week, i'm quite tempted to open an account with them

 

I always get chase bank and paypal emails on a daily basis. I get about 5 or more a day and I also get about 10 ebay scam emails.

What a waste of their time and mine as I know an email scam from a mile away.

 

Install SpamBayes - after a while they'll go straight to your spam folder.

 

Why not poison their haul with some fake information?

Since they are plying you with false information, recipocrate them with some of your own. Enter as many fake ID/passwords as you can into those form fields! I sometimes get a kick out of insulting them, like this:

ID: youareabastard@goanddieass.com
password: youwillgethivsoon

Code (markup):

Inputing false information into those false websites would mean additional work for those phishers, as they sift through junk to get to the real goods.

 

I like going on their sites and typing:

youaredumbasses
pissoff

as my username and password.

 

I get Paypal and Ebay scam emails to addresses I have that I've never used for either. I can see how someone with one email address could get taken advantage of the first time they see these emails.