Very kind chap, just sent me an email to say he has pay palled me some money however i have no idea why. Apparently i have to reply within 30 days to collect it - sounds strange.
Andrew Gibson of Nigeria ?
Its a tiscali account. Dont know where he lives.
Here is email;
andrew gibson just sent you money with PayPal.
andrew gibson is a Verified buyer.
To complete this payment, you must accept or refuse it within 30 days. If you do
not accept or refuse this payment within 30 days, it will be cancelled and the funds
will be returned to bill blyth's account.
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Transaction ID: xxxx78NP23H6WFS20
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Strange how the money goes back to a different person if i dont accept or refuse within 30 days. Im planning on ignoring email unless someone comes
forward. I have sold an item privately for roughly that amount recently but didnt send paypal details.
Just login to paypal and see if the request is there? If it is, claim it, if not, ignore it. All charges like this appear in your paypal payments area.
Don't click on the link!!
It's probably a phishing attempt to get your paypal username / password.
go to Paypal yourself, check your account, there almost certainly won't be a payment in there, if not, delete the email. It's like those
emails that are apparently from your bank, trying to get you to log into a dodgy page.
Cheers
vince
Yep, phishing!
The link will take you to what looks like the paypal site, but won't be.
You enter your username and password and they then have access to you account.
Maybe it's Mr Claus sending you an early one !
Forward the email to PayPal too.
As already said. Ditch the e-mail link and manually type Palpal into the address bar and log in that way. If it's legit it'll be there
waiting for you....
I like Mailwasher Pro for this kind of thing. When you see the mail in your inbox it shows not only what the link purports to link to but also what it
actually links too. Phishing mails stand out quite obviously!!! Except when they point to an IP address but that's highly suspicious...
paypal@com.uk is not the correct web address
I would alert paypal etc.
I agree wholeheartedly with what the others have said about not clicking links, but... If you do go to paypal on your own steam and see the transaction there, it could be the private sale you mentioned. You don't need to give any details over to someone to recieve a paypal payment, you can just go to paypal and put in an email address and 'blindly' send it money, so if you've had any email contact about the private sale they may have done that.
Post caught my eye as I do know an Andrew Gibson, but he's in Pretoria, South Africa, and I'm sure would have no reason to contact you.
Sure he would not be best pleased to hear his name used in a scam attampt
cheers
Fred W B
You could email the guy you're selling to and ask him.
On the original e-mail, hold your cursor over the link (don't click) and the true link will appear.
adrian
strange, I folled the link whcih somehow figured out my e-mail address - from a cookie perhaps
then I entered an incorrect password deliberately and it rejected it; either it is real paypal and know it was wrong password or the fake browser page
rejects all passwords.
I changed the link in text above in case it was genuine.
Sure enough when i check paypal account - nothing there!
Definite scam i guess.
ah, so the link was proper paypal link not the scamming link. otherwise how else could it know the password was not correct.
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Originally posted by 02GF74
ah, so the link was proper paypal link not the scamming link. otherwise how else could it know the password was not correct.
Just think of the amount of people who get to a fake site then enter their username and password twice or even three times because we all make typos, if the fake site gets the same three usernames and passwords in a row it can be pretty sure the details entered are correct, also if you just do it once, the deatils can be logged and tried at a later date. If they work all well and good for the scamster, if the y don't it's a failure for them, they will send out thousands of emails get a minute fraction of usernames and passwords that are correct, they only need one to make a few hundred quid. I'd do that if my concience would allow it, that and the fear of being Bubba's puppy for a period of time whilst detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.