[lbo-talk] where to report mail crooks ?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Sep 16 07:47:40 PDT 2006


Sandy Harris wrote:
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary ?fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp? wrote:
>
> ? I just got a mail pretending to come from Paypal, asking me to
> ? confirm my account info.
> ?
> ? The site I went to is obviously very suspicious but I have no idea
> ? where to report them.
>
> As others have suggested, check Paypals' site.
>
> Consider calling your local or national cops' fraud squad.
> This is an obvious attempt to trick people into giving
> passwords that can be used to rob them, so some law
> enforcement agency ought to be interested. Lord knows
> which one, or how to find them, though.

I have been receiving half a dozen or so a day of these paypal frauds for months. There is really no point in reporting them or doing anything except simply deleting them unopened. I have them filtered into trash now, but of course new frauds appear daily.

Carrol



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