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Watch out for Paypal Scam From Explodehost.com

A1Owner

A1Owner

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Hello,
This is the first time i saw a weird looking paypal email in my account and when i checked header it said this :
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Received:	 from 72.232.189.186 (EHLO www3.explodehost.com) (72.232.189.186) by mta283.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:29:09 -0700
Received:	from apache by www3.explodehost.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <bezprede@bezpredel.info>) id 1G8cJt-0008IS-1r for myemail; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:28:57 -0500
To:	myemail
Subject:	Urgent Account Verification
From:	service@paypal.com  Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book  Add Mobile Alert ,
Reply-to:	noreplay@paypal.com
MIME-Version:	1.0
Content-Type:	text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding:	8bit
Message-Id:	<E1G8cJt-0008IS-1r@www3.explodehost.com>

Note the reply to address : noreplay@paypal.com it should have been noreply@paypal.com

And basically the email was about account verificiation which was sent to an email address never used on paypal :)

So always check headers if you get emails from paypal.

Bad very bad explodehost for hosting bezpredel.info which seems to be source of the spam. :tired2:
 
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nsuk said:
Yes I get these all the time. I just ban and delete them.
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Oh i just sent it to spoof@paypal.com

But why do people do that what do they get out of such activities? :confused4

Wonderful got another email from hostspectrum.com :( whats with these hosts which post this on their websites :

HOSTSPECTRUM.COM

HostSpectrum has a zero-tolerance policy against "spamming" - sending unsolicited bulk e-mail - on our network.

Please report abuse to

abuse@hostspectrum.com

Code: 
Received:	 from 206.123.100.20 (EHLO mercury.hostspectrum.com) (206.123.100.20) by mta404.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:14:27 -0700
Received:	from nobody by mercury.hostspectrum.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1G8d1u-000211-K0 for myemail; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:14:26 -0500
To:	myemail
Subject:	Urgent Account Verification
From:	service@paypal.com  Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book  Add Mobile Alert ,
Reply-to:	noreplay@paypal.com
 
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Hi,
This is Eliav from Explode Host.
I was just checking google, and found this post
I wanted to let you know that their account was removed due to the spamming.
We didnt know that they were going to be spamming, but it was all taken care of.

Please let me know if you have any questions :)

Thanks,
Eliav
Explode Host
800 928 5391 X501
 
I've recieved several emails from the domain wachovia.com with paypal spoofs
 
I had LT complain to me about one such site sending fake paypal emails too, needless to say the site was suspended.
 
Marki said:
just checked out http://4usd.com, there is so many scam sites on it!
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I know lol, I emailed the DC, host & paypal last week & its still online. Paypal did respond but I couldn't believe what they said:

Blah blah blah
Please report it to spoofs@paypal.com <<< that's how much they think about security, while that site hacks into paypal accounts they have the cheek to ask me to report it to spoofs lol....
 
Craig said:
I know lol, I emailed the DC, host & paypal last week & its still online. Paypal did respond but I couldn't believe what they said:

Blah blah blah
Please report it to spoofs@paypal.com <<< that's how much they think about security, while that site hacks into paypal accounts they have the cheek to ask me to report it to spoofs lol....
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Haha. That site is a gooden :p http://4usd.com/paypal.php

But really... Only an idiot could fall for these scams.
 
Craig said:
I know lol, I emailed the DC, host & paypal last week & its still online. Paypal did respond but I couldn't believe what they said:

Blah blah blah
Please report it to spoofs@paypal.com <<< that's how much they think about security, while that site hacks into paypal accounts they have the cheek to ask me to report it to spoofs lol....
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I used to work with that DC, they're very unprofessional. Just check their website: www.ntouch.ca

No wonder they wont delete the website
 
Im sick of gettin them.
I get so many that I set up a seperate spam folder called PayPal_Spoofs
:D
 
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