Debt Consolidation Depot
Debt Consolidation & Financial Information Resource Center
January 8, 2004
Two emails circulating the internet pretend to be from eBay and PayPal,
and an online auction site and web payment company. They lure readers to a
phony site in an attempt to steal personal and financial information to
defraud customers.
(PRWEB) -- Identity theft is rampant these days, and the methods that the
thieves use are becoming more sophisticated. One method that has come to our
attention as of late is the use of emails that bear the logos of companies
such as eBay and Paypal, and appear to be legitimate.
They target users of these services and claim that they need to update their
information with them, or that some fraudulent transaction has occurred in
their account. They then provide a link to a site where they can update
their information.
While the links often contain the names of the legitimate company, they send
the user to a site set up by the thieves for the sole purpose of collecting
the users name, account number, social security number and credit card
information.
Armed with this data, they can then assume the identity of the customer and
spend freely.
The phony sites are usually only up for a few hours or days, and then they
disappear as quickly as they appeared.
For more information on this topic and to ready the actual emails sent by
the identity theft thieves, please see http://www.identity-theft-help-information.com/paypal_fake_alert-01-06-2004.html
and http://www.identity-theft-help-information.com/ebay_fake_alert-01-03-2004.html.
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