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Paypal Fraud, Paypal Email Scams and Avoiding Paypal Phishing

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:14:55 +0000

To access a Paypal account you need to have the username and password of the account. The username of a Paypal account is the main email address (primary email address) used to register the account. The owner of the account would also set up a password to be used along with the username to access the account. The security system is quite secure as long as the username and password of the Paypal account are known only to the actual owner of the account. If these details are available to anyone else it would mean that the security of that Paypal account has been compromised. Anyone acquiring the username and password of any Paypal account can access and perform all functions that the actual owner of the account could do.

In this article we will try to explain in simple terms how confidential login information of an actual Paypal account owner can be robbed and misused. We will then provide important and simple suggestions that would reduce the chances of such a fraud being committed on your Paypal account.

(a) Being careless with your information: This type of Paypal fraud can be committed very easily and does not require too much effort on the part of the fraudster. Users very often write down their login details for various websites with the fear of forgetting them. Anyone having access to these written details can login to the Paypal account and treat the account as if it was his own. Another possibility that could easily open a Paypal account to fraud is when the user selects a very simple or easy password that can be easily guessed. People with bad intentions need to make a few guesses before they arrive at the correct password to enter the Paypal account. These are the simplest ways in which a Paypal fraud can be committed and they do not require any email scam to be done.

(b) Identity theft through a Paypal email scam: Paypal phishing or identity theft as it is commonly known, involves an attempt by a fraudster to extract the login details of a Paypal account from the actual owner of the account. Armed with these detais, the fraudster can be very dangerous as full control of the Paypal account can be excercised. In this case, emails will be randomly sent to many email addresses informing the receiver of a certain activity in their Paypal account. For these Paypal email scams to work, the receiver of the email will need to login to his Paypal account by clicking a link on the email. The exact contents of each Paypal email scam might differ but the objective remains the same. Once the user clicks the link in the email, he is taken to a web page that closely resembles a regular Paypal login page. This page is infact a fake and is hosted by the fraudster (not Paypal) with the sole purpose of collecting confidential login details from the actual owner of the Paypal account. If the owner of the Paypal account falls for this trick, his account will soon be operated by the fraudster and this could lead to heavy losses. Attempts to phish Paypal accounts have become quite common and each time a fraudster unleashes his cruel trick a number of innocent Paypal accounts become victims.

The above two methods account for a major share of Paypal frauds and Paypal email scams being committed in recent times. It is not very difficult to stay clear from these frauds and we provide some useful suggestions to help you. You really do not have to give up using your Paypal account with the fear of it being misused or phished by someone else. The internet provides numerous advantages when it comes to selling and buying online and to surrender these benefits to a pack of fradusters would be sad.

Avoiding Paypal fraud and Paypal email scams.
(1) About your Paypal password: Choose a password that is not very easy to guess. Using your first or last name for your Paypal password is not a very good idea. Paypal frauds can be committed easily if you note your pass word in places that are accessible to others. Change your password periodically and whenever you suspect that you have become a victim of a Paypal email scam or other type of Paypal fraud.

(2) Clicking links to login: Never click links on emails to access your Paypal account. Always use your web browser and type in the complete name of the Paypal website to login. Paypal email scams urge you to click a link on the email and access your website. The login information is then saved to a website that is not a Paypal website. This allows fraudsters to login to your Paypal account and make transactions on your account.

(3) Periodic account check: Login to your account periodically and look for any strange or unexpected transactions. The transactions could relate to a receipt or payment of money. If you notice any abnormal movement in your Paypal account, consider it to be a Paypal fraud and inform Paypal immediately. Also change the password immediately to reduce the chances of further damage.

(4) Logging out of your account: If you are in the habit of logging into your Paypal account and then leaving the active account minimized on your browser, you could be helping someone commit frauds on your Paypal account very easily. Such security lapses do not require email scams or other methods. Always logout of your Paypal account once you have finished working on it or when you will not be using it for a couple of minutes.

Follow the above suggestions and you will be pleased with the results. Your Paypal account will be a lot safer and you will at the same time, reap the benefits of transacting online. The contents of this article have been compiled by the network team at Kaisilver. We request you to forward this link to all your friends and acquaintences, they will be grateful that you let them know about a safe way to work with their Paypal account.

You can see the complete report on Paypal fraud and Paypal email scams at this link:
http://www.newsletter.kaijewels.com/paypal-frauds-paypal-email-scams.htm

Thank you for taking this time to read this article.
Regards.
Ms. Roit
http://www.kaisilver.com

This article is written neither to promote nor criticize the Paypal online mode of payment. With the rapid growth in the number of Paypal users, frauds and email scams on Paypal accounts has become more frequent and severe. Our network team has put together a report on the current Paypal frauds and Paypal email scams being perpetuated by various groups of fraudsters. We
also offer advice for users of Paypal to help them reduce the chances of becoming victims of such frauds and scams.

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Google Kit Cash Scams (6) – Kevin, Kyle or Corey?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:32:05 +0000

See how this scammer changes where he lives when we change our IP location. Want you to think he is one of the local crowd that you can trust. Put you at ease before sucking you into his scam. www.robertscashblog.com This outfit also belongs to the www.freshkeywordideas.com group that seems to own most of these scamming blogs. If you have been scammed by them report them to the authorities like the BBB and Internet Crime Center www.ic3.gov They also operate under Google ATM, Googe Treasure Chest and many more. Your $2.95 for the FREE kit will quickly turn into an automatic $70/m subscription after a few days. It is hidden in the fine print. This is how they make their money. You have to cancel you card to stop further charges.

Google Kit Cash Scams (3) – Craig’s Money Blog

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:32:54 +0000

See how this scammer changes where he lives when we change our IP location. Want you to think he is one of the local crowd that you can trust. Put you at ease before sucking you into his scam. www.craigsmoneyblog.com Their scam signs you up for a costly monthly subscription after paying the low S&H on your FREE trial kit. Once they have your card number they start billing you after about 7 days if you don’t cancel your trial, and in some cases even after you cancel.

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Big Corporation Stepping on the Little Guy – Ebay

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:33:59 +0000

Ebay ® unfortunately scammed me out of money by stiff arming me in to paying for services not rendered and then they ruined my reputation by saying that my

First off, a few months ago I had over 90 positive feedback with 100% satisfaction on ebay. This was earned over years of transactions. Unfortunately ebay ® recently made some changes that really hurt my business in several ways. Including my business reputation, pocket book and lots of wasted time.

I have been selling on ebay ® for years, however I began selling web site hosting services on ebay quickly within one month racked up over $400 promoting my products and business. I was offering a discounted auction to give ebay ® users a great start up rate on web site hosting. I was offering them an introductory rate of $.01 or $1 for a few 1 – 3 free months of services.

I soon found out that other ebay ® users were buying my auctions and not signing up for hosting services, therefore costing me a large amount of money. I later complaned about this (see below).

After some research I found out why I was getting a lot of people buying my auctions and not signing up for my services. Turns out that ebay ® created a search function that gives ebay ® users better rankings if they have higher feedback rankings. Additionally ebay ® implemented a feature that requires a certain amount of feedback for users to be able to sell on ebay ®. So in essence what was happening was people were bidding on my auctions that I paid ebay ® for, sending me (often times) one penny and then requesting positive feedback. This had me outraged because it was costing me large amounts of money to list these auctions and costing a lot of money on marketing. Then a lot of my auctions were being taken down by fake bidders.

Another thing that ebay ® did was remove ANY SELLERS ability to leave negative feedback about buyers that treat sellers poorly, which makes absolutely no sense because sellers are the only people that pay ebay ®. These people that help make ebay ® succeed in the stock market are the ones getting treated terrible and not being able to protect themselves from buyers abusing their system.

Fake bidders kept requesting I leave them positive feedback after sending them a penny. I wanted to leave them negative feedback, however since ebay ® removed this function, I was being held hostage by all bidders to leave them positive feedback because they are the only ones that can hurt my credibility by leaving me negative feedback. If I didn’t leave them feedback and they sent me money, they had the right to leave me negative feedback.

On 9/4 I sent an email telling ebay ® the following: (exact message below)
I have several hundred listings for hosting online. The reason I listed
all of these online was because I thought since people were bidding they
were going to sign up for the service I was offering. So a few hundred
dollars later, it turns out 3 out of 4 people are bidding on my items
just to hold me hostage for positive feedback. This is terrible and
expensive. How can this be resolved?

I never received a response until 9/10 when ebay ® shut down my account and hundreds of my auctions I spent around 50 hours working on. I was astonished! I attempted to contact ebay ® regarding this on the phone, however their phone number hangs up on you and does not offer any sort of support. This company is very scarey, because I believe that companies that treat customers like this are destined for failure.

After requesting help and spending hundreds of dollars with ebay ®, my account was shut down. Not to mention, many legitimate accounts I obtained ended up cancelling services from me because ebay ® sent them a letter saying that I was abusing their services and that any feedback I left for them was not legitimate. This type of thing was a major defamation of character for my business.

After everything I have paid around a thousand dollars paying and improving my ebay ® auctions, put in tons of hours and feel abused by ebay ®. I also am shutting down several companies that I run that use paypal ® as a payment provider.

Obviously this is all my personal opinion and ebay ® and paypal ® are all Designated trademarks and brands that are the property of their respective owners.

Regards,

Joel McLaughlin

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Re: The truth about Paypal Reverse Scams JOIN THE FIGHT!

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My update to the original Truth about Paypal video.

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7 Ways To Identify Affiliate Program Scams

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:30:43 +0000

Since the introduction of the Internet, work from home opportunities have increased tremendously and affiliate program is among such proliferating business opportunities. Becoming an affiliate makes way for individuals to earn money by promoting products or services of an Internet business for which they act as affiliates and in turn they get commission according to their contribution to sales. Nonetheless, even these programs can be deceptive, as there are affiliate scams that do not pay their affiliates for their contribution and escape without paying the affiliates but these scams can be avoided if interested people are a little more careful while choosing their affiliate programs.

Some of the things that can symbolize a red signal in the affiliate program are:

1. No support contact information on affiliate program’s website

Many affiliate program – scams do not provide any contact information. You cannot contact the ‘merchant’ of the product to check ask questions regarding the products affiliate program. First of all you should definitely e-mail the affiliate company asking some general queries. If they do not reply within a few days, it must be enough to raise your eyebrow. Also, the ones that do not have either email or contact number might be an affiliate scam.

2. Affiliate program charges you for becoming an affiliate

Genuine affiliate programs generally do not charge money from affiliates for promoting their products and services but if it does it may be a scam. Affiliate marketing is a win-win business for both product merchants and their affiliates, so merchants really want as much affiliates as possible, while affiliates want to make money selling merchant’s products.

3. There is no track record about a certain affiliate program

If there is any new affiliate program, the best way to check its legitimacy is after the period of six months. The genuine one with quality products will still exist whereas the fake one will collapse within this time. How you would check the performance of such affiliate programs? There are affiliate marketing networks like Click2Sell.EU that allows you to full track the record of such affiliate program with the – how frequently it pays, it ranks the merchants, etc. So you can always select only the best affiliate programs and be sure that you will be paid.

4. Try to Google for negative testimonials about your affiliate program

The testimonials about your affiliate program are good evidence that tell you about the legitimacy and pros and cons of the affiliate program but do not trust the testimonials that have been provided by the affiliate program itself at their websites. Online forums are a great place to find testimonials or you can always use a search engine to find some feedback about it.

5. There is no proper affiliate tracking system or network

These tracking systems are provided by almost all genuine affiliate company to its affiliates so as to check the commission that has been earned by them. If merchant doesn’t use a good affiliate network or doesn’t provide you with its own good affiliate tracking program, then you should not consider promoting a product at all.

6. Do not believe in “too good to be true claims” of affiliate programs

This is essential especially regarding payment of commission as it might be a scam. Too good to be true offers in most cases are ‘to good to be true’ and you might not get paid.

7. Stay suspicious about links getting hacked as other fellow affiliates They might change the affiliate id in the link and thereby transfer all your earned commission to their account. Use software like link cloakers to hide your affiliate ID to avoid such fraud.

In order to ensure regular and in-time payments to affiliates, Click2Sell.EU (http://www.click2sell.eu) affiliate marketing network ensures that only reliable and good affiliate programs would be listed. By joining a reputable affiliate marketing network you can easily find the most reputable affiliate programs out there and keep track all their performance. When you are choosing an affiliate program to promote make sure you use these tips to avoid affiliate program scams.

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The truth about Paypal Reverse Scams JOIN THE FIGHT!

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Paypal Fraud and Paypal Email Scams

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:50 +0000

This article is written neither to promote nor criticize the Paypal online mode of payment. With the rapid growth in the number of Paypal users, frauds and email scams on Paypal accounts has become more frequent and severe. Our network team has put together a report on the current Paypal frauds and Paypal email scams being perpetuated by various groups of fraudsters. We also offer advice for users of Paypal to help them reduce the chances of becoming victims of such frauds and scams. As the usage of the internet has increased in handling online transactions, both buyers and sellers need to become aware of safe practices to operate online payments or online receipt of funds.

(a) Being careless with your information: This type of Paypal fraud can be committed very easily and does not require too much effort on the part of the fraudster. Users very often write down their login details for various websites with the fear of forgetting them. Anyone having access to these written details can login to the Paypal account and treat the account as if it was his own. Another possibility that could easily open a Paypal account to fraud is when the user selects a very simple or easy password that can be easily guessed. People with bad intentions need to make a few guesses before they arrive at the correct password to enter the Paypal account. These are the simplest ways in which a Paypal fraud can be committed and they do not require any email scam to be done.

(b) Identity theft through a Paypal email scam: Paypal phishing or identity theft as it is commonly known, involves an attempt by a fraudster to extract the login details of a Paypal account from the actual owner of the account. Armed with these detais, the fraudster can be very dangerous as full control of the Paypal account can be excercised. In this case, emails will be randomly sent to many email addresses informing the receiver of a certain activity in their Paypal account. For these Paypal email scams to work, the receiver of the email will need to login to his Paypal account by clicking a link on the email. The exact contents of each Paypal email scam might differ but the objective remains the same. Once the user clicks the link in the email, he is taken to a web page that closely resembles a regular Paypal login page. This page is infact a fake and is hosted by the fraudster (not Paypal) with the sole purpose of collecting confidential login details from the actual owner of the Paypal account. If the owner of the Paypal account falls for this trick, his account will soon be operated by the fraudster and this could lead to heavy losses. Attempts to phish Paypal accounts have become quite common and each time a fraudster unleashes his cruel trick a number of innocent Paypal accounts become victims.

Avoiding Paypal fraud and Paypal email scams.
(1) About your Paypal password: Choose a password that is not very easy to guess. Using your first or last name for your Paypal password is not a very good idea. Paypal frauds can be committed easily if you note your pass word in places that are accessible to others. Change your password periodically and whenever you suspect that you have become a victim of a Paypal email scam or other type of Paypal fraud.

You can see the complete report on Paypal fraud and Paypal email scams at this link:
http://www.newsletter.kaijewels.com/paypal-frauds-paypal-email-scams.htm

Thank you for taking this time to read this article.
Regards.
Ms. Roit
http://www.kaisilver.com