Hacking Attempt

I fell for one of those with Paypal once. Luckily for me, Paypal actually has a responsive support team unlike YouTube, so it only took me about an hour to get my account back. :)
 
SmexiDesigns said:
I remember I got one of those, the idiot who sent it spelt "sincerely" wrong lol.
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My favorite was an email I once got that said he (the person writing it) had just won $50,000,000 in the lottery, so he planned to donate portions to random people. He said that he had chosen to give me $100,000,000. Either that was one rich dude before, or he can't do any math... All he needed was my credit card information and he would wire me the money. :)
 
ConnersCraft said:
My favorite was an email I once got that said he (the person writing it) had just won $50,000,000 in the lottery, so he planned to donate portions to random people. He said that he had chosen to give me $100,000,000. Either that was one rich dude before, or he can't do any math... All he needed was my credit card information and he would wire me the money. :)
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I think he was rich before. :D
 
I get ones like this for PayPal almost daily, sadly a lot of people are bound to get this and innocently click on it and even enter their login details. Hopefully this will help make some more people aware.
 
I get these a lot but not on Youtube, more on stuff like PayPal where they send me an email saying that my account was suspended until I click the link in the email and login on the webpage that it points to. Yeahhh righhttttttt. Never do it!
 
I get these all the time saying people from Ukraine are trying to send me $700 million but I need to pay £140 to get the money transferred into my bank account.. wish it was real but oh well :/
 
Cameron Dubs said:
I wonder how many people actually believe this and end up being hacked.....
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Many sadly, they're preying on people who dont know any better, my mum for example she rarely uses a PC and it isnt something she grew up with so she would likely click on it and happily enter her details to resolve a made up issue, they're going for less internet savvy people. The best thing to do when opening the email is check its source email address, you know it is not the real PayPal when its "payal.com" lol thats where I get my PayPal spam from.
 
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