Comments on: Paypal Scam Nearly Got Me http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/ Stephanie Booth's online ramblings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:15:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: brigetjones http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5102 brigetjones Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:12:16 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5102 <p>Quand Stéphane Gigandet vivait encore au states, j'ai payé mon abo par paypal. Ensuite il m'est arrivé la même chose que toi. Sauf que chez Yahoo, le mail est apparu dans 'Bulk'. J'ai supprimé aprés verif. Thanks a lot for the informations and have a nice day :)<br><br>Briget</p> Quand Stéphane Gigandet vivait encore au states, j'ai payé mon abo par paypal. Ensuite il m'est arrivé la même chose que toi. Sauf que chez Yahoo, le mail est apparu dans 'Bulk'. J'ai supprimé aprés verif. Thanks a lot for the informations and have a nice day :)

Briget

]]> By: brigetjones http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5096 brigetjones Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:12:16 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5096 <p>Quand Stéphane Gigandet vivait encore au states, j'ai payé mon abo par paypal. Ensuite il m'est arrivé la même chose que toi. Sauf que chez Yahoo, le mail est apparu dans 'Bulk'. J'ai supprimé aprés verif. Thanks a lot for the informations and have a nice day :)</p> <p>Briget</p> Quand Stéphane Gigandet vivait encore au states, j’ai payé mon abo par paypal. Ensuite il m’est arrivé la même chose que toi. Sauf que chez Yahoo, le mail est apparu dans ‘Bulk’. J’ai supprimé aprés verif. Thanks a lot for the informations and have a nice day :)

Briget

]]> By: jenny e. http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5101 jenny e. Sun, 23 May 2004 06:16:04 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5101 <p>thanks for writing about your experience, stephanie! it's so hard to tell what is real in this world anymore. :( if it's okay with you, i'd like to link to this thread from my blog.<br><br>best,<br>jenny</p> thanks for writing about your experience, stephanie! it's so hard to tell what is real in this world anymore. :( if it's okay with you, i'd like to link to this thread from my blog.

best,
jenny

]]> By: Jean Lespinasse http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5100 Jean Lespinasse Thu, 20 May 2004 06:07:50 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5100 <p>Merci pour cet article. J'avais tout oublié des consignes de sécurité et je viens tout juste de recevoir un courriel de paypal me signalant que ma CB arrive à  expiration et qu'il me faudra mettre à  jour mes infos ! Après vérifications ça vient bien de chez eux. Un instant je ne savais plus que croire !</p> Merci pour cet article. J'avais tout oublié des consignes de sécurité et je viens tout juste de recevoir un courriel de paypal me signalant que ma CB arrive à  expiration et qu'il me faudra mettre à  jour mes infos ! Après vérifications ça vient bien de chez eux. Un instant je ne savais plus que croire !

]]> By: Steph http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5099 Steph Wed, 19 May 2004 13:25:06 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5099 <p>Tu croyais que quoi ne marchait pas? Rien ne t'empêche sur un mac de cliquer sur un lien "déguisé" dans un e-mail html, et de donner ton nom d'utilisateur et ton mot de passe à  un site qui n'est pas celui que tu crois, si tu ne vérifies pas attentivement ce qui est écrit dans la barre d'adresse... Ce qui a failli se passer pour moi.</p> Tu croyais que quoi ne marchait pas? Rien ne t'empêche sur un mac de cliquer sur un lien “déguisé” dans un e-mail html, et de donner ton nom d'utilisateur et ton mot de passe à  un site qui n'est pas celui que tu crois, si tu ne vérifies pas attentivement ce qui est écrit dans la barre d'adresse… Ce qui a failli se passer pour moi.

]]> By: l helvete underground http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5098 l helvete underground Wed, 19 May 2004 05:39:03 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5098 <p>je croyais qu'avec les macs ça ne marchait pas, tu n'utilises pas safari?</p> je croyais qu'avec les macs ça ne marchait pas, tu n'utilises pas safari?

]]> By: Jocelyn http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5097 Jocelyn Sun, 16 May 2004 22:20:33 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5097 <p>J'utilise aussi Paypal, merci pour toutes ces infos, vais rester vigilant.</p> J'utilise aussi Paypal, merci pour toutes ces infos, vais rester vigilant.

]]> By: Lunar http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5104 Lunar Sun, 16 May 2004 07:30:39 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5104 <p>What about using GnuPG to make sure that the e-mail is not faked ? SMTP is not a secure protocol, using asymetric cryptography to ensure trust should be relevant to that kind of business, or am I just to geeky here ?</p> What about using GnuPG to make sure that the e-mail is not faked ? SMTP is not a secure protocol, using asymetric cryptography to ensure trust should be relevant to that kind of business, or am I just to geeky here ?

]]> By: David Breakey http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5103 David Breakey Sun, 16 May 2004 06:48:01 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5103 <p>Yep; they're getting trickier all right. They are now taking advantage of a rather nasty flaw in Internet Explorer that allows them to present fraudulent URLs in the status bar, so even if you check where the link goes to, you can't always be certain.<br><br>Fortunately, I haven't seen a Linux browser yet that is fooled by this ...<br><br>Incidentally, Evolution 2.0 now displays the link target in the status bar, too; a much wanted feature, and I'm hearing that there's an effort underway to port it over to Windows as a nearly native application.</p> Yep; they're getting trickier all right. They are now taking advantage of a rather nasty flaw in Internet Explorer that allows them to present fraudulent URLs in the status bar, so even if you check where the link goes to, you can't always be certain.

Fortunately, I haven't seen a Linux browser yet that is fooled by this …

Incidentally, Evolution 2.0 now displays the link target in the status bar, too; a much wanted feature, and I'm hearing that there's an effort underway to port it over to Windows as a nearly native application.

]]> By: David Breakey http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5089 David Breakey Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/05/15/paypal-scam-nearly-got-me/#comment-5089 <p>Yep; they're getting trickier all right. They are now taking advantage of a rather nasty flaw in Internet Explorer that allows them to present fraudulent URLs in the status bar, so even if you check where the link goes to, you can't always be certain.</p> <p>Fortunately, I haven't seen a Linux browser yet that is fooled by this ...</p> <p>Incidentally, Evolution 2.0 now displays the link target in the status bar, too; a much wanted feature, and I'm hearing that there's an effort underway to port it over to Windows as a nearly native application.</p> Yep; they’re getting trickier all right. They are now taking advantage of a rather nasty flaw in Internet Explorer that allows them to present fraudulent URLs in the status bar, so even if you check where the link goes to, you can’t always be certain.

Fortunately, I haven’t seen a Linux browser yet that is fooled by this …

Incidentally, Evolution 2.0 now displays the link target in the status bar, too; a much wanted feature, and I’m hearing that there’s an effort underway to port it over to Windows as a nearly native application.

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