Carystacy.com stealing my PayPal login info?

[someguy]

Today in my Yahoo! Inbox I get an email from PayPal, or assumably so seeing as how it had the normal PayPal email address in the "From" area of the email. Here's a shot.

Looks legit right? None of the links work. They all direct me to the following location:

http://www.carystacey.com/blog/wp-content/www.paypal.com/index.php


Can anyone tell me if this is legitimate or is someone trying to pull something here?

 

[Queso]

That's so fake. I get similar ones from eBay. Delete it.

 

[yellow]

This is a phishing scam.
The "from" box can be easily spoofed.
Whenever you get an email of this ilk, go directly to the source, don't use the links in the email.

Report it to PayPal and then delete the mail.

 

[jimN]

There are at least two glaring spelling mistakes and that 42 hour period is should be either 48 or 24.

Not even a clever bit of phishing.

 

[yellow]

Not even a clever bit of phishing.

And yet.. so many people get nailed by them. It never ceases to amaze me.

 

[Queso]

And yet.. so many people get nailed by them. It never ceases to amaze me.

As an IT admin, you should know better than anyone that people don't read their e-mails properly

 

[yellow]

As an IT admin, you should know better than anyone that people don't read their e-mails properly

That's very true. I'm getting a kick out of this right now:

http://fixmyphone.org/

Sounds like a hoax to get one of their buddies to receive a bajillion phone calls, and have a ******** of jackasses waving their phones above their heads.

 

[Queso]

That's very true. I'm getting a kick out of this right now:

http://fixmyphone.org/

Sounds like a hoax to get one of their buddies to receive a bajillion phone calls, and have a ******** of jackasses waving their phones above their heads.

That's so good

 

[rockthecasbah]

That's very true. I'm getting a kick out of this right now:

http://fixmyphone.org/

Sounds like a hoax to get one of their buddies to receive a bajillion phone calls, and have a ******** of jackasses waving their phones above their heads.

Hahaha that's hilarious. Where did you find a link to that?

 

[yellow]

One of my coworkers (who didn't acctually read the page) sent a link this morning, that he'd heard it on the radio and thought it was the real deal. Like I said, he hadn't rad the page.

Right now we're emailing all the others in our group that the proper "fix" number in our area is our boss' cell number.


EDIT: LOL! One of my coworkers just realized, 2773665 = AssFool

 

[Poseidon]

I just checked out the link and all it says now is that it was an April Fools joke and explains what this fake number spelled out - nothing about what the prank was.

Could someone post what the scam was please?

 

[elfin buddy]

Heh, I love how they spelled "choise". Interesting how they run it off a WordPress blog though.

 

[rockthecasbah]

Heh, I love how they spelled "choise". Interesting how they run it off a WordPress blog though.

i'm more amused by their unique spelling "temporaly"

 

[yellow]

I just checked out the link and all it says now is that it was an April Fools joke and explains what this fake number spelled out - nothing about what the prank was.

Could someone post what the scam was please?

That there was a cell phone virus that would delete everything on your phone, and to fix it, dial in a number and hold the phone over your head to "fix" the virus.