Warning! Be careful with messages that receive money

[theanh3695]

I received this email 7 hours ago, unfortunately it was not filtered and moved to my official inbox.

https://i.imgur.com/IJES5We.png

I found that there are 2 funds sent through mailboxes that need to be confirmed

https://i.imgur.com/63Y7DtL.png

I used VPS to open the "Confirm Now" link and it led me to a website similar to Paypal

https://i.imgur.com/onmOJzN.png

This is a scam, please do not enter information into this site. They will get your password account information.

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[whtchocla7e]

I also received a similar email this morning. For me these messages happen often. You should be familiar with it, be careful and warn new users.

[GreatArkansas]

I used VPS to open the "Confirm Now" link and it led me to a website similar to Paypal

This is a potential phishing website which the attacker is wanted your PayPal account?
The attacker could potentially get your emails from other people or maybe you give it someone like some airdrop forms before here in the forum or in other websites.

It's not only you got that e-mail for sure. It was sent by bulk.

The best thing to do is report the e-mail, it will automatically be considered as spam and will be moved to your spam messages and google will start to look at that and if they(google, yahoo, etc.) found it really a scam or spam, they will mark that email address as spam and future e-mails of that email address will be flag.

[sheenshane]

I received this email 7 hours ago, unfortunately it was not filtered and moved to my official inbox.



I found that there are 2 funds sent through mailboxes that need to be confirmed



I used VPS to open the "Confirm Now" link and it led me to a website similar to Paypal



This is a scam, please do not enter information into this site. They will get your password account information.

Quoting to show images.

Obviously, it is a phishing site. No secure sign on the website link used.

Be careful on clicking giving link especially on spam mail that unexpected transaction comes.

[Polar91]

I'm also receiving this type of phising email and what I do is just block the sender and report him/her. It's also important to think for a while before clicking a link from an email. I think they got my email from the website I registered for bounty. To avoid receiving this kind of email, I tend to use more than 2 email accounts. In this way, receiving any malicious email for my personal account is unlikely to happen.

[Jet Cash]

You should never click o links in email and messages, Copy and paste the url into a direct navigation bar, and don't forget to check the copied link. Alternatively, type the site name into the address bar in your browser, and access the page that way. A genuine message should provide a way to access the page once you have logged into your account using your normal method.

[theanh3695]

I received this email 7 hours ago, unfortunately it was not filtered and moved to my official inbox.

https://i.imgur.com/IJES5We.png

I found that there are 2 funds sent through mailboxes that need to be confirmed

https://i.imgur.com/63Y7DtL.png

I used VPS to open the "Confirm Now" link and it led me to a website similar to Paypal

https://i.imgur.com/onmOJzN.png

This is a scam, please do not enter information into this site. They will get your password account information.

Quoting to show images.

Obviously, it is a phishing site. No secure sign on the website link used.

Be careful on clicking giving link especially on spam mail that unexpected transaction comes.

Thank you very much, it seems that the low ratings cannot upload images

[Pmalek]

Paypal doesn't contact their costumers saying Hi or what's up! They will use your full name in any official correspondence.
Emails that start with Dear Sir/Madam or Dear User are not legit.

Besides, even if they are you should never click on links in the emails and login from there just like Jet Cash said.
Type in the address yourself. 

[LTU_btc]

It's obvious from sight that you got fake email message. I got hundreds such fake messages throughout they years thatvI'm not paying any attention to it. In your case it's enough to look at email address of sender - it's obvious that PayPal won't send you email from adr4bax@prodigy.net address.
And you should NEVER open such suspicious links in your inbox. It may be phishing link or even inffected with malware. Better safe than sorry.

[dkbit98]

Better switch from Gmail and use some normal privacy based email provider.

For now, you can blacklist sender, and put it to spam folder.

[nakamura12]

When opening an email you received you should check who is the sender and base on the image provided you didn't read who sent you that email and click the link right away which is not a good choice to make. Next time you should be careful and always check everything you see if you open an email you received. Anyway, before opening the email you received you actually can see the email sender right away, I guess you didn't check who send you that email you got and almost fell for it.

[boyptc]

Obviously, it is a phishing site. No secure sign on the website link used.

Yes, this is a phishing site and that email is used to attempt several people that it has sent that email which happens everyday. I also received same email before.

Check the domain of that email and if you find it obviously wrong, don't click it. There are instances that the domain looks identical so an option to call the authorities of that company to verify if its legit is okay too.

[hugeblack]

Awareness has increased, making the probability of success of such scams success less than 1%.
This type of scam is considered an old school of fraud, but ignoring such links will not help to limit them. Report them.
You can report:

 - Bitcointalk ----> Report to moderator  ----> Phishing Page/URL
 - Report Phishing Page -----> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
 - Gmail account ----> click the 3 dot menu ----> click "Report phishing."

[DdmrDdmr]

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You should turn into a Jr. Member in a few minutes, and thus be able to edit the OP and display the images there properly now for everyone’s benefit. -> done.

The phishing site seems to be down now, but the type of scam shown in the OP is likely to be a recurring one, so being alert and very wary of URLs, links and so forth is mandatory.

<…> thanks DdmrDdmr sent to me merit!
I participated in the forum for about a year and this is the first time I have the first merit. I am really happy

… That is because the OP is basically the first content oriented post you’ve made that is not bounty related. Bounty post are not meritable, and as soon as one provides some kind of post that has some reasonable content, it becomes a postulant to receiving merit. In addition, having a history of posts that is extremely heavy on the bounty reporting side will normally lessen the chances of being merited on regular posts.

[tbct_mt2]

You should turn into a Jr. Member in a few minutes, and thus be able to edit the OP and display the images there properly now for everyone’s benefit. -> done.

There is another way to see images attached from Newbies by looking at those image-attached posts in their post history. Without quoting those posts, we are still able to see images, that will be displayed if we look at those posts in post histories, not look at them directly in OP, or posts.

[theanh3695]

You should turn into a Jr. Member in a few minutes, and thus be able to edit the OP and display the images there properly now for everyone’s benefit. -> done.

There is another way to see images attached from Newbies by looking at those image-attached posts in their post history. Without quoting those posts, we are still able to see images, that will be displayed if we look at those posts in post histories, not look at them directly in OP, or posts.

thanks DdmrDdmr sent to me merit!
I participated in the forum for about a year and this is the first time I have the first merit. I am really happy

[ElmedoRator]

Many thanks for your warning. Looks like scammers with very low success rates. New people are aware of scammers and what they do, inform the community. I don't use PP, it won't do anything when I don't have a paypal account

[Zionatin]

This scam is old. I get these all the time. I don't use paypal so... Anyone falling for this is stupid and greedy. You can't get a refund on something you never bought. DOH!!

Awareness has increased, making the probability of success of such scams success less than 1%.
This type of scam is considered an old school of fraud, but ignoring such links will not help to limit them. Report them.
You can report:

 - Bitcointalk ----> Report to moderator  ----> Phishing Page/URL
 - Report Phishing Page -----> https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
 - Gmail account ----> click the 3 dot menu ----> click "Report phishing."

1% is a lot. That would be plenty of people falling for it. More like 0.0001% Maybe less. They send thousands of these emails daily. They use clickbait like money-back offers, refunds, special deals only for "you" not available elsewhere and stuff like that.

[Harlot]

Just by looking at the email address of the sender you will see it's not coming from Paypal. What you need to be more aware of are the ones with the convincing ones which are way too similar to the official email address as if you aren't used to opening up emails from your financial accounts you would barely see the difference. You should always ask yourself why did you have that refund if you haven't transacted with them in the first place or why you have won a prize when you aren't joining any contests. People are way to jolly when they see money coming in they forget to the fact that their is a big chance it's fake.

[TryNinja]

Just by looking at the email address of the sender you will see it's not coming from Paypal. What you need to be more aware of are the ones with the convincing ones which are way too similar to the official email address as if you aren't used to opening up emails from your financial accounts you would barely see the difference. You should always ask yourself why did you have that refund if you haven't transacted with them in the first place or why you have won a prize when you aren't joining any contests. People are way to jolly when they see money coming in they forget to the fact that their is a big chance it's fake.

That's not always the case. There are ways you can spoof the sender email and make it look completely legit.

See: https://lifehacker.com/how-spammers-spoof-your-email-address-and-how-to-prote-1579478914

What you need to do is:

1. always manually go to the website and see what is happening for yourself, rather than clicking on the email link; or
2. copying everything on the link after the main domain, writing it yourself and pasting the remaining link; and
3. ALWAYS triple-check the URL.