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[t5mission]

Watch out another Nigerian trying to rip people off.

I recived this in an email:

Dear Seller,
Greetings,I want to inform you that i have made payment via
paypal and you will be notify and also your paypal account will be credited,So kindly ship out the package and mail paypal customer care (customercarepaypal@consultant.com) the shippment tracking number for shippment verification....

Thanks.....

Then this 5 mins later.

(See Attached)

[Edited on 13-2-2006 by t5mission]

[Iconic944ss]

Sadly, I've had a similar one to this - but not with any attachment.

There appears to be not end to the scums ingenuity - why on earth its not used usefully is beyond me.

I keep fairly close tabs on my paypal account and change the password every few months just in case.

I notified paypal - but just got a standard form letter back again from them.

Good heads-up though.

F

[Rushjob]

One of the lads at work had a similar one on Sunday for an item he sold.
Luckily he logged in to his paypal account direct to check & smelled a large rat.

[Teddy1]

I get countless emails every week from 'the Halifax' asking me to renew my account details. The thing is, I'm not even with them!

Ebay and Paypal were a great idea once, but now it seems it's just a source of every scam going. Quite sad really, but that is the culture and mentality of people today. Like a ramoray fish, swim and feed in the slip stream of others.

[Edited on 15-4-2006 by Webteam]

[t5mission]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

(Revenge of the Geek)

Wrote a bash script on ftp'd it to a unix mail server in canada last night that mailed customercarepay-pal@consultant.com

Subject:
DHL Tracking Number.

Message Body:
Your a total TW*T why don't you p1** off and leave E-Bay to the honest.

The E-mails were routed through a mail server on P.E.I in Newfoundland and at last count this morning I had sent it 24,612 times.

HA HA HA (Evil Laugh)

[Edited on 15-4-2006 by Webteam]

[antonye]

The only thing is that it probably came from somewhere completely different to the email address it appeared to come from, so some poor guy is currently receiving thousands of emails for being as scammed as you were.

[Iconic944ss]

T5 sounds pretty clued up to me - so, more power to ya.

Flood the ****s whole mail server!!!

(Sorry - I aint had a cuppa yet! )

Frazzled Frank

[t5mission]

I did an MX ferify on the address and it was in the area as the postal address so I quite confident that I got him. Added note looking at the loging on my script the mail server went down at 10:51 at a mail count of 35,000 exactly at that point the script recived the first failer notice and errored out so as not to effect the P.E.I. mailserver to much. Revenge!! (with a conchents)

[antonye]

Of course, an mx verify would return a valid address because there's no better way round a spam list than using a valid from address ... still doesn't mean they were the real senders of the email!

[antonye]

Did you go through the mail headers and trace the route back that the mail took? That should at least point you to the originating server. Beware of falsified or injected entries though!