Todays Scam / Paypal and Skype Scam 10-15-08

Posted on October 15, 2008 by gomerjones

This is todays newest scam letter. For more information visit my website.. Scam Email for more information on scams like the one below. So far no reports of campaign type scams, that would attempt to suck your wallet dry. I have noted some strange IP traffic to my websites from China and I suspect that some of this scamming is from our competition on the Asian Continet. No proof.. but serious beliefs and records indicate that China or Chinese based groups are involved in scamming. I talked to a RCMP representative about 2 years ago who indicated that a lot of the wired money orders that he has tracked have been cashed out in China. All you need to cash a wire transaction is the wire transfer number and a pasword type of code. You can cash it at any office in the world.

All images and text as well as links are copied directly from the email… DO NOT CLICK ON A LINK in this email it will take you to a bogus website.

PayPal

This email confirms that you have paid U.S. Skype (info@skype.com) €100.00 EUR using PayPal.

The exchange rate for this purchase is 1 USD = 0.631529EUR. This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as “PAYPAL *SKYPE”.

Payment Details

Transaction ID: 62K40984CJ5800033
Item Price: 100.00 EUR
Total: 100.00 EUR
Order Description: Skype Shop
Invoice ID: 19102
If you want to cancel this payment please click the link below:

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance,log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

The link above was disabled for your protection.. It did NOT go to the Paypal.com website .. it went to a proxy site that was going to steal your information and use it to clean out your account.

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2 Responses

  1. carol Fraracci, on June 16th, 2009 at 7:01 pm Said:

    It seems someone has hacked into a friends skype that keeps calling me and harassing me. Also he is very vulgar in his language. Whenever i open skype, it takes no time before he is calling me. He told me today it is not who i think it is and he doesn’t let me no where he is living.
    I am tired of the calls and the vulgarity.

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    • gomerjones, on June 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pm Said:

      Notify Skype of the issue. They can trace the IP of the person making the call. They have to download skype to their computer so it will leave a trace. They can then cut the customer off. Even if they are hacking your friends account they have to have downloaded the skype program and his IP will give him away. They may be able to disable his account for good that way. ALSO if you know who this friend is tell him to change his account password and do not pass it to friends to use. More than likely this guy has given his account info to someone or several people so they can make calls on his account. He is taking full advantage of his subscription, but also at the same time allowing you to be screwed with.

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