i_buy_and_sell_trash, I could post a fake ebay, paypal, chase, HSBC, et. al. link every day...

Anyone with your name and address can use that in their WHOIS info. They can register it in any name they want and then go in and change it to someone else. It is not really identity theft since your neighbors, co-workers, or anyone you have ever did business with knows your name and address. They can get lists of those and randomly use other peoples name and address in the information. Anyone that assumes WHOIS information is accurate, is clueless since the registrars could care less what is in there.

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I have found a web site that is a scam, it is a perfect replica of the PP logon page, should I post it here? Does anyone care?
Oh and to those of you who post all the info you get from WHOIS, all I can say is WATCH IT. If you think identity theft is fun when someone gets your credit card, having someone use your NAME and ADDRESS to register a scam web site is a REAL barrel of laughs. I know, because it happened to me. If you have ever registered a web site, you will know that no one checks if the name and address are for real. In my case, the name and address were ok. The phone number however was fake. It was from a different state (say for example I live in Pleasantville OH and the area code and prefix were for Pleasantville OK). The email address was from a domain in China.
The really fun part is that no one cares if you try to report it. I was not defrauded out of any $$ so it was not considered the classic case of identity theft. I did not however want the FBI waiting for me with handcuffs so I tried my best as an individual to shut the garbage down, including contacting the domain registrars and web hosters and AGs. The domain registrars and web hosters could not care less, as long as they get their $$ from their customers.
So anyway (sorry for ramble, but by posting the mess you get off of WHOIS you may be posting info for an innocent person or organization) is there anyone who cares about these scam web sites?

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http://www.logpaypal.com/ If you look at the address bar you will notice it is not paypal.com. In addition you will notice that the site does not recognize your cookies. These both are red flags. I have informed PayPal about this site so it probably will be shut down in a few days, at least it should be.

http://www.paypal-buy.com/ This actually appears to be a spoof site for eBay. I have also forwarded this site to eBay but who knows if they will actually do anything about it.


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Btw, both of these are still up.

The first one pings to 216.244.108.52 and has network admin info of:

OrgName: CERVALIS
OrgID: CVLS
Address: 1200 BEDFORD STREET
City: STAMFORD
StateProv: CT
PostalCode: 06905
Country: US

NetRange: 216.244.96.0 - 216.244.127.255
CIDR: 216.244.96.0/19
NetName: CERVALIS-1BLK
NetHandle: NET-216-244-96-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.CERVALIS.COM
NameServer: NS2.CERVALIS.COM
NameServer: NS3.CERVALIS.COM
NameServer: NS4.CERVALIS.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 2001-04-10
Updated: 2002-02-05

TechHandle: HCW-ARIN
TechName: Warren, Harry C.
TechPhone: +1-203-602-2020
TechEmail: hwarren@cervalis.com

The second one pings to 38.113.1.111
and has admin contacts of:


Domain Name: YOURHOSTINGACCOUNT.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS1.YOURHOSTINGACCOUNT.COM
Name Server: NS2.YOURHOSTINGACCOUNT.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 26-sep-2003
Creation Date: 23-sep-2002
Expiration Date: 23-sep-2013

and

Yourhostingaccount.com goes back to:
US

Domain name: YOURHOSTINGACCOUNT.COM

Administrative Contact:
Support, Domain support@accountsupport.com
70 Blanchard Road
Burlington, MA 01802
US
781 852 3200
Technical Contact:
Support, Domain support@accountsupport.com
70 Blanchard Road
Burlington, MA 01802
US
781 852 3200



it took me 60 seconds to do this.

Note: the same technology Paypal's attornies use to track down and threaten sites like this one could be used to find these scammers just as fast as I did and shut them down probably before they even go live! (It takes 24-48 hours for the DNS to propagate and that would give them time to find the network being used to host the domain and inform the admins to shut them down.)

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Be careful if u receive a message supposedly from eBay.com (looks very convincing, comes from aw-confirm@eBay.com, NOT fraud-obvious reply3.ebay.com etc...) claiming that there have been attempts to log into your ebay acct from a foreign IP address, and asking you to verify all your info in the link provided.

1st check that "foreign IP address" using WHOIS database. It will be non-existent.

2nd check the IP address this e mail came from. Decide for yourself:


Search results for: 210.11.208.172

OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
OrgID: APNIC
Address: PO Box 2131
City: Milton
StateProv: QLD
PostalCode: 4064
Country: AU

ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net

NetRange: 210.0.0.0 - 211.255.255.255
CIDR: 210.0.0.0/7
NetName: APNIC-CIDR-BLK2
NetHandle: NET-210-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to APNIC
NameServer: NS1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS4.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS.RIPE.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
NameServer: DNS1.TELSTRA.NET
Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database.
Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate
Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more
Comment: help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse
Comment:
RegDate: 1996-07-01
Updated: 2004-03-30

OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact
OrgTechPhone: +61 7 3858 3100
OrgTechEmail: search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-03-26 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

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<RFarnham>, it's not. PayPal will never address you by your email address or as "dear PayPal member". Not even for security reasons.

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<Pat>, This one actually may be real, did you check the link in the source?

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<VVVV>,
This is the lastest spoof. I could not forward a copy to paypal's spoof reporting site. I did a copy and then forwareded to Paypal. Does PayPal ever get any of these people. I have only used PayPal once. How did the spoofers get my email address?



Account System Cleanup
IMPORTANT
Dear PayPal Member,

Due to overwhelming reports of fraudulent transactions and account abuse, PayPal now requires all active members who have an account to verify that they rightfully own it.

You must click the link below and enter your email, password and reference code on the following page to verify your account.

This is NOT a SCAM or HOAX. Please check your address bar to make sure you are on the authentic PayPal website.
https://www.paypal.com/account­cleanup/



Your reference code is : PPA-2546-5437

You will be guided through a series of steps which will require you to enter personal information, such as credit card number and/or bank details.

ALL accounts not re-verified within 5 days of receiving this email will be automatically frozen.

PayPal is doing this to protect it's valued members from fraud and scams. Paypal will not share your personal information with other companies and corporations. Privacy Policy

Thank you for your co-operation,
PayPal
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Due to security reasons your name and personal information cannot be mentioned in this email.

To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here.

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Hell, lately I've been getting emails from the admins at megazone.org telling me my email access will be cut off if I don't go to this webpage and enter a bunch of ID info...

...of course, *I* am the admin of megazone.org. Unless I have a split personality I'm not sending myself such notices. ;-)

There are many, many such scams running out there, PayPal and eBay are hardly unique, they're just big targets. I've seen emails claiming to be from the IRS and other government agencies as well. The idea is just to panic someone into acting before they think about it rationally.

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Please understand that it is not Paypal\'s fault that their site is being tampered with or that a scammer is attempting to get your information. If that be the case, why not boycot ebay as well?? I get 2-3 PER DAY from a spoof ebay.

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Alot of this crap originates overseas. Vietnam, China, Korea are the worst. I have a friend in control of a series of Cisco routers that feed three datacenters. He has blocked the entire continent of Asia from all routers. Good advice. I\'d recommend it to anybody with a sensitive site.

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I recieved this email today:
Received: from localhost (du200p233.icubed.com [204.215.200.233])
by mx24.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABAN9Q6GAJEG582
(sender <Do_Not_Reply@paypal.com>);
Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "PayPal.com" <Do_Not_Reply@paypal.com>
To: Ivyatplay
Reply-To: Do_Not_Reply@paypal.com
X-Priority: 1 (High)
Subject: IMPORTANT eooaerih
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------C94023F6001CEC7"
Message-Id: <AABAN9Q6GAJEG582@mx24.nyc.untd.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
X-ContentStamp: 2:3:3930696422




Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.
eooeerie

I am not a member of PP, because of things I have heard about them. So, I knew this was a scam of some sort. Apparently, they are still trying to dupe people.

Ivy

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[infamatory, antagonistic troll post deleted. I only have a few rules here. Please try to follow them.]

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<paypal loser>,

well the IP 66.175.16.51 does not trace back to Paypal, that's for sure.

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2472,

Got also a froud one. But this one HAS!! some info about mij CC in it. But i have never used my CC with paypal. I checked with my CreditCard company and they said no weird transactie's have been made. lucky me. But i blocked it anyway.

Dear Me, :) [The dear is a other one then i normaly get from paypal. But it is the same a on my CC[/B]

It has come to our attention that you haven't logged into your PayPal account for a relatively long period of time. PayPal daily receives more than 1000 new registrations, and most of them are fraudulent. Because of this fact we started to check periodically accounts for their activity. To avoid closure of your account we require some specific information from you, this also confirms that your email address is still active. Please make sure you have your MasterCard credit card, ending with 9999 (expires SomeTime) WTF!! this is my CC wich i never used with PP, or any other card that is already added to your PayPal account. For your security and to confirm your identity, we will ask you to enter the Card Verification Number (you will find more information about this on the next page).

To quickly confirm your account, click the link below and enter your password on the following page to confirm your email address. This process takes no more than 30 seconds.

Click here to confirm your email address Real URL http://66.175.16.51/cgi-bin/us/webscr?cmd=_update-card&;customer=bunchofshit ok ip in it FAKE?





You can also confirm your email address by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/ http://66.175.16.51/cgi-bin/us/webscr?cmd=_confirm-by-number&cn=AnumerAndmyemail. In the "Confirmation number" box enter the following number: some long numer

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

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<Cami>, does your email program allow you to view the source of the html email? One look there would tell you if it's valid or not.

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