PayPal scam fail

[SMKM]

PayPal doesn't know how to use proper grammar or spelling apparently :rofl:

 

[PandaPlaysAll]

That's most likely a scam or a PayPal page which you could've edited.
We will never know!

 

[SMKM]

That's most likely a scam or a PayPal page which you could've edited.
We will never know!

Well I certainly know. It was a fake PayPal email address that sent me that. I'm not sure if PayPal sends any emails that are even remotely close to that.

 

[SkyRogue]

Ah yes, you gave scammers a good model to use!

True! He can better remove this..

 

[SMKM]

Ah yes, you gave scammers a good model to use!

Yeah, because nobody can possibly just lookup "paypal email scam" and find a better, or similar model to follow if their goal is to scam -.-
I guess we should keep all scam reports private because it gives scammers a model to follow too, right?

 

[deletedaccount]

XD

It's funny to see this. Some scammers clearly don't know "Theere" "engliseeh".

 

[SMKM]

I believe scam reports should be kept between the scammed, the scammer and the staff member. Not the public eye.

Just an opinion, though.

There's not 1 single way to see scam reports (as a model for you to scam), and same applies to this. You can learn to be more/how to be more careful when dealing with users through scam reports. And also if a potential scammer has an active scam report on them, I think another reason it's good for it to be public is so that other users are aware and can look at the scam report to see if it seems plausible, and then decide whether or not to deal with this user. So that's two ways of looking at it.

 

[Madbegger]

"We Need Your Help To Resolved Unauthorized Access"... Nice. They seem like a helpful and legitimate bunch.

 

[MrBorder]

Seems so legit i already believe it

 

[Bitconnect]

The scammers do that on purpose to bypass anti-spam, IIRC.

 

[ICTman1076]

The scammers do that on purpose to bypass anti-spam, IIRC.

Almost, but not quite. They do it in order to only catch the most gullible people - it stops them from getting people who wouldn't normally fall for it to contact them, then realise it was a scam and ignore them, which would waste the scammer's time.

 

[Bitconnect]

Almost, but not quite. They do it in order to only catch the most gullible people - it stops them from getting people who wouldn't normally fall for it to contact them, then realise it was a scam and ignore them, which would waste the scammer's time.

Interesting. That's the third explanation I heard. I always assumed it was because they are foreign and can't speak english well. Then I read on HF that they do it to bypass anti-spam. But your explanation makes sense too.

 

[ICTman1076]

Interesting. That's the third explanation I heard. I always assumed it was because they are foreign and can't speak english well. Then I read on HF that they do it to bypass anti-spam. But your explanation makes sense too.

Anti-spam kind of expects them to do poor grammar now - I am reliably informed that Apache SpamAssassin (a well used spam blocker) has a very rudimentary AI that sort-of learns what is spam and what is not. Judging by the fact that scams tend to have bad grammar, I'd be willing to bet that SpamAssassin has learned that bad grammar = spam.
The "foreigner argument" is probably also quite a good one, because it is (usually) true, but I believe the one I mentioned is the best one because I've heard it from multiple sources (one of which I vaguely remember being BBC Radio 4, BBC being an extremely well known British TV & radio broadcaster)

 

[Bitconnect]

Anti-spam kind of expects them to do poor grammar now - I am reliably informed that Apache SpamAssassin (a well used spam blocker) has a very rudimentary AI that sort-of learns what is spam and what is not. Judging by the fact that scams tend to have bad grammar, I'd be willing to bet that SpamAssassin has learned that bad grammar = spam.

True.

Plus it sounds like you know what you are doing

 

[ICTman1076]

True.

Plus it sounds like you know what you are doing

Lol I don't know much about AI, but I do quite a bit of development (see my site below) so I'm naturally interested in that kind of thing