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| Thread ID: 111579 | 2010-08-03 01:30:00 | Heads up anyone who uses PayPal or HSBC banking | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1124148 | 2010-08-03 01:30:00 | Have got quite a few phishing scam emails lately pretending to be from PayPal or HSBC. They contain a URL which is quite clearly fake, but it would be wise to double-check any emails from these companies (or more) before you go clicking anything. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1124149 | 2010-08-03 01:42:00 | I get them quite a bit - mainly the Paypal ones, and usually to an email address that has no association to the Paypal account I have. My SOP for any email with a link in it is to place the cursor over the link before even thinking about clicking it. The hover-text that displays is a dead giveaway that it's not legit, because it won't display a web address that corresponds to the text in the link itself. Then the big delete button gets used. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1124150 | 2010-08-03 01:43:00 | We've had a lot of people coming in asking about suspicious Paypal messages over the past couple of weeks. | Cellux (15145) | ||
| 1124151 | 2010-08-03 02:06:00 | don't use hsbc now cos they now charge people $15/mo for admin fee. the only adv i see with them is that it is a all you can use transaction account which many banks provide free of charge, but hsbc generates interest without you needing to transfer to a savings account. never had any of those emails when i was a client thou. i have paypal, not had those either .. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1124152 | 2010-08-03 04:29:00 | Have got quite a few phishing scam emails lately pretending to be from PayPal or HSBC. . They sent me millions of your account is going to be terminated messages. Funny as I don't have an account. Then I got the last chance one. Then the sad too late, it's terminated one. |
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