[bcab] Re: BEWARE OF FRAUDULENT E-MAILS

Hi wendy.  this hooks in well with tristram#s message about security which I 
think appeared here.

It's really not rocket science at the end of the day.  Many of these hoax 
messages are also written in dreadful english.  It makes me want to team up 
with some fraudsters and try to write something better at least.  It might 
at least sound vaguely english, even though I know some of the linguists 
among you could probably pick technical holes in it!

while on this subject,  many of the ebay spams you get which are like this 
talk about an item you appear to have bought 6 or 8 months ago.  I'd be 
writing before that I think if something hadn't turned up!

Regards

graham
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bcab" <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:58 PM
Subject: [bcab] BEWARE OF FRAUDULENT E-MAILS


This message is for anyone who has a Paypal account.

I have recently received several messages purporting to come from Paypal
asking me to update my account.  I was suspicious of them, so I closed the
message and logged onto my Paypal account from within Internet Explorer and
my financial favourites list.  There was no request there to update my
account, so I contacted Paypal asking if they had sent me any messages
asking me to do this.  I have today received a message from them saying they
have not asked me to amend my details.

If you have a Paypal account and receive any messages like this, the first
thing to do is look at the greeting.  Paypal say on their page about
protecting yourself against fraudulent e-mails that they always greet you
with your full name or Paypal business account name.  The messages I
received began with "dear Paypal user", which indicated that they were not
genuine.  When Paypal write to me the messages always say "dear Wendy
Sharpe".

Even if the message asks you to click on a link to go to the Paypal website,
never do this.  Always close the message, open your web browser and log on
in the normal way.

Finally, Paypal would like you to forward any suspicious messages to:

spoof@xxxxxxxxxx

telling them why you are suspicious.  They will then check the messages and
try to find out where they are coming from.

I hope this will keep you all safe.

Wendy
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