Comments on: New Starbucks Paypal Phish - “You Have Pending Payment to Starbucks”

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:56:16 +0000

I got one today. Instead of starbucks, it was a charge for gsmarena.com in the amount of $584.99. It will show up as *paypal gsmarena.com*. The “TO DISPUTE” link goes to http://onebabystop.com/images/update/cgi-bin/webscrcmd_login.php. Weird stuff. It came in on my private email. Not my yahoo address. Something is up!

By: Mildred

Mildred — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:44:30 +0000

I received the Starbucks and PayPal phish but with a new twist. It said “This email is to confirm that you have a pending payment to StarBucks (sales@starbucks.com)$149.98 USD using your PayPal account.”

When I contacted the real PayPal, I was informed that the way to tell the difference between the fraudulent one is that they will always say “Dear customer,” and the legitimate one will say “Dear (your name)”. Easy way to tell the difference.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:56:45 +0000

David, it is very unlikely that those e-mails have anything to do with Fifth Third bank. I’ve gotten phishing e-mails from banks where I don’t have an account. The idea behind phishing is to drop enough bait so that someone bites.

By: David

David — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:02:13 +0000

I am getting these Fifth Third phishing attempts at least twice a day, and they have been going on for at least a month now. I am very disappointed Fifth Third has given my email address to these phishers. I would advise to change banks.I have accounts with 3 other banks and have no problems. Fifth Third has been very unresponsive to my concerns.

By: Frank Bame

Frank Bame — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:55:57 +0000

I also got this phish today 8/4/2006. Immediately forwarded it to spoof@paypal.com and was confirmed by them to be a hoax. Since the spam filter on verizon.net caught it a huge red flag was raised to me.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:47:36 +0000

One other place you can report phishing attempts to is: http://www.castlecops.com/pirt
I’m with a major developer of banking software, and I’m even being sent these banking phishing attempts to my work email address - so they’ll send to anyone! Fifth Third Bank are clients - so I know they are a legitimate bank!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:33:25 +0000

When you get this type of email forward a copy to: spoof@paypal.com. They will email you back and let you know if it was a legit message from them. Also they say they forward fakes to the proper authorities.

Use spoof@ebay.com for ebay phishing spams.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:39:25 +0000

$119.88 for a pound of House Blend? Yeesh…

By: Ted Bruner

Ted Bruner — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:50:43 +0000

If you think that’s bad, try this:
My wife and I are editors for a yearbook publishing firm in the Mid-West. One night I saw an ad in a page for “The Fifth Third Bank” and thought it was curious enough to go to the site to see what/who would use such a name.
When I got home I Googled the name and - sure enough, there was such a bank in that city.
That was several months ago.
Today, after reading your article on Phishing and Starbucks/PayPal, I continued on through my incoming (I use Juno’s POP-3).
Along with at least 7 cases of an offer for a mortgage - all the same and all very poorly written - came a Phishing expedition from, … The Fifth Third Bank!

I don’t know what all the fuss is about “Big Brother” looking over our shoulders; somebody is able to find even the most casual visitor to a site - or even an accidental visitor - and harvest their location(s) for use later.

Most scarry!

I have saved the missive in case you want to see a copy.