I'm getting "spoof" mail about my PayPal and EBay accounts daily

[undeterred]

No, I've never fallen for it- since I am aware that this kind of scam/spam exists.

But it seems like I am forwarding one of these phony emails to PayPal or EBay every single day. ([e-mail] or [e-mail])
I assume that they must look into it, but amazingly, I keep getting more every day, and they're all from different sources.

I also get spoofs on banks I've never heard of several times a week.

There must be a low risk of getting caught for this kind of thing or a lot of people who fall for it. :shrug:

[dogday]

1. I received an email today telling me I won the Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation lottery. Another lottery email.... They try so hard to get you to fall for this stuff.....

[CornField]

2. I get them daily too

I use to forward them to the spoof mails, but now I don't even bother.

The sober virus has given me a welcome change. Now I have 200 different looking e-mails to delete each day. LOL!

[Fridays Child]

3. Time to change your email address. It worked for me.

Now, all I get is Viagra spam. :eyes:

[undeterred]

11. Oh, don't get me started on that

there must be 1 million viagra/cialis emails for every penis in the world...

[Nite Owl]

4. I've been getting a lot

of mail with attachments. The message says things like here's your password information or here's the information you requested. I'm sure their are people who will open these things too. The spam guard is finally starting to pick them up or they ran out of free email addresses!

[CornField]

7. That's the sober virus

Don't open em.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39197760,00.htm

Sober.P now accounts for more than 5 percent of all email, surprising experts with its continued growth

English:

From:
One of the following:


Service@
Webmaster@
Register@
Info@
Hostmaster@
Postmaster@
Admin@


Subject:
One of the following:


Re:Your Password
Re:Registration Confirmation
Re:Your email was blocked
Re:mailing error
Re:

Message:
One of the following:


ok ok ok,,,,, here is it
Account and Password Information are attached!
Visit: http:/ /www.
This is an automatically generated E-Mail Delivery Status Notification.
Mail-Header, Mail-Body and Error Description are attached

Appends one of the following to the bottom of the message:


Attachment-Scanner: Status OK
AntiVirus: No Virus found
Server-AntiVirus: No Virus (Clean)
http:/ / www.

Attachment:
One of the following:


our_secret.zip
mail_info.zip
error-mail_info.zip
account_info.zip
account_info-text.zip

Note: The attachment will be a zip file containing a copy of the worm. The file name within the zip file will be Winzipped-Text_Data.txt.pif or Winzipped-Text_Data.txt.exe.

[Nite Owl]

10. Yes, that's them

None for the past few days now though. I emptied the spam folder and deleted folder. Only on the msn account did I get them though the others are ok so far. I should just get rid of the damned account but it was my first address over ten yrs ago now and I still hang onto it.

[libnnc]

5. I got one the other day

telling me to update my account info. They look really official, but I never pay attention to them. One said that I've added a new screen name to my account and to log in to update my info.

Cheeky bastards, ain't they?

libnnc

www.folkmoot.com

[karlrschneider]

6. I used to get them occasionally but not in the last few months...

it might have been around the time I changed ISPs when they quit.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. Those who are doing this are probaby overseas

So it is harder to catch and prosecute them.

[Richard D]

9. I'm a health care professional . . .

. . . and last week I got one, personally addressed to me and discussing my profession, asking me to participate in a joint venture involving investing millions of foreign dollars into a health resort. The writer wanted me to start researching properties in the states. A totally new twist on the Nigerian scam.

[JHB]

13. Anyone gotten the Yassir Arafat scam?

Essentially the Nigerian scam, but using Arafat's hidden monies (or belief in them) as bait.

[crispini]

15. Wow, that's a good one.

Personalize the spam and it'll be much more plausible. They just keep getting more and more inventive don't they? :eyes:

[rumpel]

12. I am on a Mac and very few Spam programs exist for Macs, but here is

one I use and it does work and is very inexpensive. I just report the really bad ones to their ISP's.

http://www.spamx.com/Index.html

[undeterred]

14. Another great argument for having a Mac! n/t

[59millionmorons]

16. If you have AOL I can help

I used to get these too, but now I dont ever get them. I figured out how to block them.