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Subject: Nasty virus out there posing as"paypal"
You should always be wary of messages from crooks. In Britain in the 80s, Thatcher's sound bites changed the core values of a whole generation of good working-class people, cos they didn't understand where the real criminals where. The damage is done now, and it's a bit more difficult to disinfect the virus. It needs Satchi & Satchi... and billions to invest in a cure for the future. Just my 2p.
It's in WORDS where the real power lies. (aka the message of 1984). In England a union was once extensively defined as "a combination of parishes for the joint administration of relief for the poor" and before the 1980s a "trade union" of politically caring workers was able to voice their altruistic concerns with public respect. The Ingham/Thatcher/Sachi&Sachi sound-bite machine was more about long-term psychological manipulation than freedom. It successfully re-defined the rules which were employed to understand what was meant by trade unionism and made it an object of derision. Those caring individuals who once belonged to trade unions are still present in Britain in great numbers, but without a collective voice their pleas are ignored, as the class divide increases. We have now reached a situation where there is a positive correlation between wealth and life itself which stinks of political planning. End of OT remark.
I nearly got caught by the Ebay one...but when it asked for my PIN for my bank account, I knew something smelled extremely fishy. Don't click links on dubious emails. Type the address of ebay to get to the real deal. They won't ask you for social security numbers or bank account passwords...anyone that does is up to no good. There is a spoof of Yahoo too that asks for similar information.
Well, it shouldn't have to be said (but it does bear repeating), but you should never, EVER click on an attachment unless you GENUINELY know who sent it and why. A legitimate online business will NEVER send an executable file to you via email. Not only is it bandwidth and time consuming for them, it's extremely poor practice to send people unsolicited files, and they know it. When/if you get mail supposedly from Microsoft, PayPal, Ebay, Norton, whomever, go to their site FIRST and check. If you can't find the info that you're supposed to "update" or whatever, don't do it. You can always write to their technical support and ask them what it's about... Sometimes it pays to be cynical and suspicious. ;-) bonni
"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch." - Bette Davis
There is a legitimate company which cracks passwords for a living (internet security company). In a demonstration of their methods they said they would take twenty people, have them fill in a form, and they would crack half their pin numbers (bank card) from the form. The form had questions like "your age", "address", etc. One of the questions asked people to fill in their pin number. 25% of people actually filled in the very thing that the company said they were going to find out. This either proves that we are dumber than we thought, or that this company managed to hypnotize twenty five percent of the group.
Attached Link: http://www.secunia.com/internet_explorer_address_bar_spoofing_test/
In relation to this, there's a fairly new exploit for IE that can fake a URL in the address bar and in the status bar if you hover the mouse over a link - info and fix at the included link. Usually, you can tell a spoofed site by the address shown in the address bar, but not if they're using this trick. One precaution to take also is to always start with a new browser window and type in the address of a secure site, rather than clicking on web page links. PayPal for instance says that you should manually enter https://www.paypal.com/ to get to their site."Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken
"This either proves that we are dumber than we thought, or that this company managed to hypnotize twenty five percent of the group." LOL!!! And the other 25% (to make up the half of the group they said they'd crack) probably used their birthdates, address, license plate numbers, etc. as their PIN... bonni
"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch." - Bette Davis
Well,Ebays had this going on almost ever since they bought/merged with PayPal and it seems to have begun evolving from there.The real problem isn't that its happening...its the attitude that people have to be stupid to fall for it.My best friend had that attitude and I was present when the dumbass got hit by a virus passed via his AIM messenger...destroyed his hard drive and over a thousand dollars of software he "didn't" back up to disc!!You don't have to be stupid to fall for a scam like this...there should be a way to prevent it.The Ebay spoof actually used an Ebay url for part of its run...seems that Ebay could have prevented this (or at least seen it coming) and blitz its members with warnings about spoofs being done of ebay!!!
Even more sad is that other people warn you not to open certain messages or visit sites because of viruses...turns out to be a false warning or worse and can be just as destructive to a business as an actual virus!!Wouldn't you hate it if Rosity put out a $10.00 coupon for any item in the marketplace (like DAZ does) and someone has warned you not to open rosity emails because of a possible virus?
If the end goal of learning is genius...why are most geniuses failures at learning?
I got the PayPal email that asked for my card PIN number too. Why would anyone answer an email that asked for details that you would never be asked to reveal to the real PayPal? I know many people get stung with these things but with a little common sense you should be able to make the distinction between the real and the dangerous, especially when PayPal and the likes are forever sending out warnings about these things. Whenever I get one of these mails I now just forward the whole thing to PayPals spoof centre and let them deal with it. Catlin
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There is a very nasty virus going around posing as a "paypal" message. Do not open the message. It is not from Paypal. cheerio lululee