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Posted 2005-07-19, 11:57 AM
I logged in to my email today and found a message from [email protected].
So naturally I clicked it, and it says someone tried to use my account to try and purchase something. Here:

You have recieved this email because someone had tried to use your
paypal account at http://www.1-bulk-email-mailing-address -list.com
Below are the details about the transaction made:
Payment Details
Transaction ID: 4FS50663S0663861W
Total: $149.00 USD Item/Product Name: America Email Address For Email Marketing and Email

Advertising Business Information
Business: Beyond W Limited
Contact E-Mail: [email protected]
Message: send me msg to my mail [email protected]
Date : Thursday, Jul 14
To confirm or decline this transaction, please follow the
link
provide below
http://210.180.201.131/.data/secure/certificates/SSL/login.htm">ww
w.paypal.com/confirm-pp

Don't click any links btw.
So I clicked the link, and it pulls up a paypal page. A few seconds later the work computer says it has detected a virus! Oh noess...
So I close the email and link. Start some research. It seems http://www.1-bulk-email-mailing-address -list.com (without the space) Is a company that sells emails for spammers. These emails come in packages of the millions. Whoever was trying to buy something w/ my account tried to purchase the American 150+million emails, that cost 149.99.
So the way I see it is, I've got 1 of two situatins on my hands. Either A. Somene sent me a fake email, so they could get information from me to use my paypal, via the virus or suddo paypal link.
Or B. Someone somehow manage to try and use my paypal to purchase this email list. But, Paypal states that whenever they send you an email they use your first and last name. Never ask for any contact info ext. to try and deter fraudulent emails. This email fit there criteria for faud email, so I forwarded the email to them at [email protected] and they sent me back a email thanking me and telling me the shit I aready know.

The orginal email stated that if I did not comply and sign into my paypal account and either confirm or deny that I made a purchase to this http://www.1-bulk-email-mailing-address -list.com that my account would be frozen in 5 days. I signed into my account from a different computer and I see nothing telling me I might have been taken advantage of or broken into. Nothing out of the normal. There was not even a transaction made for the http://www.1-bulk-email-mailing-address -list.com

What do you guys think? If someone had tried to use my account wouldn't there be a transaction for it. What makes this purchase differnt from my purchases so that it would make paypal suspicious. I guess I should change my email password and paypal passwords atleast right.

Last edited by Kaneda; 2005-07-19 at 12:22 PM.
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