FYI - PayPal Hack

[edmo]

"The link takes users to a Web site that only looks like PayPal. When you type in your account information, you give a hacker access to your bank account and credit cards."

"In fact, when you click into one of the scam e-mails and wind up at a fake site, the site usually has a fake url to make it look like the real thing."

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wisc/20...1233060_1.html

[Brown Bear]

Damn, why didn't I think of that?

[Turboface]

Pure genius.

[B40]

Thx for the heads up.

[h0st]

hmm.. why did you revealed my busines plans Now I won´t make as much money as I could

[AdultWire]

Haha.. we used to do this to the teachers in high-school so we could change our grades.. It was pretty easy shit to fake a unix login prompt .. didn't even have to be perfect. They get a "bad password" response, we clear the screen, and send them to a real login. Haha...

[B40]

Originally posted by AdultWire
Haha.. we used to do this to the teachers in high-school so we could change our grades.. It was pretty easy shit to fake a unix login prompt .. didn't even have to be perfect. They get a "bad password" response, we clear the screen, and send them to a real login. Haha...

Which HS? Just out of curiousity.

[Paul Markham]

Thanks for the warning.

[AdultWire]

B40.. do I know you? If you think you know me, ICQ me.. haha

[RW316]

theres a site that says paypal can puase accounts...

im not sure about it because my account was never frozen... any people with that experience?

[TheApostate]

Originally posted by AdultWire
Haha.. we used to do this to the teachers in high-school so we could change our grades.. It was pretty easy shit to fake a unix login prompt .. didn't even have to be perfect. They get a "bad password" response, we clear the screen, and send them to a real login. Haha...

hehe yeah, this is fun

[Pipecrew]

wasnt this out a few years ago when some people did this and setup a domain for typeins like

paypai.com or something

[mike503]

maybe this is yahoo's way of scaring people from using paypal, and over to their paydirect

[pr0]

Originally posted by mike503
maybe this is yahoo's way of scaring people from using paypal, and over to their paydirect

A big company would never do anything bad like that! ::cough enron::: I mean, to think that a big U.S. company :::enron::: would do something to harm another company, or to profit for themselves :::martha stewart::: by insider trading....

I mean, don't be ridiculous mike503

[foe]

Originally posted by mike503
maybe this is yahoo's way of scaring people from using paypal, and over to their paydirect

Maybe Ive seen scam sites like that myself before though

[XXXPaysiteDesign]

I had a buddy do the same thing with AOL, you should have seen how many screenames/passwords he collected.

[Keev]

Well one more uphill battle and win for ecommerce once its solved.

[Kimmykim]

Nothing new to the scam. People have been doing this to get various information since there's been an internet and a crook in the same room.

Pays to be careful of the urls etc when you give out your information.

[Lensman]

Actually, it's not a hack, it's just someone spoofing PayPal's email and site.

[B40]

Originally posted by RW316
theres a site that says paypal can puase accounts...

im not sure about it because my account was never frozen... any people with that experience?

Happend to me twice and hopefully won't happen again *knock on wood*

www.paypalwarning.com