My mother recieved an email saying that a purchase had been made. My mother doesn't even know what Pay Pal is. The Shipping information was for Bill Chang and the purchase was for a new Nokia cellphone. The total of this bill was almost $500.00. I think this may be a scam of some sort, because the only thing that was even linked to my mother was the email address. Can anyone help me?
2006-08-15 15:01:03 · 5 answers · asked by mel_lea1025 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
That's a scam! Don't let her respond. There are zillions of PayPal phishing scams. If there's a link in the e-mail, don't click on it. If you save the file as text or html and check, you'll see that the link doesn't really go to a PayPal site/page even though the spammers try to make it look that way.
Check out the links I put under "Sources".
2006-08-15 15:09:45 · answer #1 · answered by pollux 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I received one a few weeks ago. They wanted me to put my pin # in for my debit card....UMMM... Major Red Flag there!!! Your bank doesn't even know your pin. I had to cancel my visa card because of this. Paypal says if they send you a email your full name will be listed along with your email address. Also never click on a link within the email. Call Paypal headquarters right away to report the email and purchase.
2006-08-15 15:39:49 · answer #2 · answered by allie_bet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's a scam. Don't mess around, just call the cops. That's what they're for.
Sometimes these people send emails like that so she'll contact them, and end up giving out all sorts of info- like bank acc. numbers, credit card numbers, etc., in order to "clear this charge" or some b.s. like that.
Call the cops, that's the quickest solution. Let them sort it out.
2006-08-15 15:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Chaos386 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i does not sell something to everyone that far away, enormously the historic previous Nigeria has with information superhighway scams, i might make confident I had the money in my hand until eventually now i might think of roughly delivery the object.
2016-12-11 09:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOAX! They're not new - they keep going AROUND AND AROUND. Don't dignify it with a response. Once you answer, they'll know they've got their hooks into you AND they'll know the address is legit. They're PHISHING - don't be a sucker!
2006-08-15 15:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by braingamer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋