Don’t click on the link and don’t try to use your login or password. Mark such e-mails as junk and do SHIFT+DEL to delete them.

Without even looking at this website I can tell that they will collect your login and password and do whatever they wish to do at their own will.

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2. In the Bank Account section, click ‘Edit’.
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I wanted to list one more item today and when I logged in I was greeted with this message:

Your account has been temporarily suspended and requires further verification.
Please contact our Customer Support Team on 0845 800 1020 or +44 (0)1534 877595 (from outside the UK)

Play.com - Account Suspension Notice

Sensing trouble I googled and found loads of play.com fraud and scam warning pasted all over the Internet. That is so weird as I always assumed that play.com is some kind of reputed website and will not be affected by fraud.

On MSE alone there is a thread alive for past 2 years. I should have checked for Play.com scam before applying for a seller account.

The worst part is that they ask for Credit Card details without which they don’t allow to open account.

To make matter more worse they never send any e-mail or informed me that something is going on.

I just checked my Card statement and didn’t find any suspicious transactions. Sine it is dead of night I can’t contact their customer support and I’ve to for 10 odd hours to call them when I wakeup late on Saturday.

This is really so frustrating, specially when you trust some Internet based sweat shop like Play.com and happily spit out your credit card details.

Let’s see what happens when I call Play.com customer support to check out what went wrong and why they didn’t bother to at least drop me an e-mail if something went wrong.

From the information which I’ve gathered so far on play.com seller account fraud I came to conclusion that better be safe with them.

I’ll update again when I’ve a word with play.com customer support team.

Update on Saturday 06-Aug-2011 at 11:15 AM

After waking up on this lazy Saturday I called Play.com customer support on 0845 800 1020. My guess was that in worst case they will connect to a call center in India. But it seems that they have call center in Phillipines or some such SE Asian country.

I spoke to one guy and he informed me that my PlayTrade account has been suspended because of it has some problem with details. When I asked what are those details he requested me to contact PlayTrade support team via e-mail.

So I’ve sent e-mail to playtradecs@play.com asking to explain the problem.

Still can’t figure out, if there was a problem they should has contacted me by e-mail at least.

I’ll update when I get any response from PlayTrade customer support.

Updates on Monday 08-Aug-2011

This is really hilarious. Today morning I received 2 e-mails from Play.com. The first e-mail says my PlayTrade account has been suspended. This is some kind of joke, account was probably suspended 2-3 ago and they sent e-mail only today. It seems that their action is faster than their brain. It’s like you start browsing the Internet before your modem powers on.

lol!

Here is the e-mail which I received from PlayTrade today morning at 11:51

From: playtrade@play.com
To: my-mail
Date: 08 August 2011 at 11:51
Subject: Your PlayTrade selling account has been temporarily suspended

Dear ,

This email is to notify you that your PlayTrade listings are not currently visible on the website. This may be due to a negative PlayFunds balance or the need to verify a recent order or changes made to your Play.com account.

If you have placed an order or have made changes to your account details then you will shortly receive a separate email advising you how to proceed.

If your PlayFunds balance has fallen into the negative please check the following details within your Play.com account:
Card number
Expiry date
Valid from date
Issue number

If you require any further assistance please contact our Customer Support Team on 0845 800 1020 (UK only) or +44 (0)1534 877 595 (outside UK). Our opening hours are 9am – 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Kind regards,

PlayTrade

If that was not funny enough, they sent one more e-mail informing that my account has been approved with apologies for the inconvenience.

From: info@play.com
To: me
Date: 08 August 2011 at 11:51
Subject: Your PlayTrade account has now been approved

Dear AJAY KUMAR SINGH

Thank you for your recent email. Your account has now been approved.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused to you in this
matter and thank you for your patience and valued custom.

Kind Regards,

Customer Support Team
Play.com

See the time stamp for both e-mails. They are same. So they sent me 2 e-mails back to back first for account suspension and 2nd for approval.

What a load of rubbish play.com are! Shame on you.

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McDonald's Survey Phishing

Received this e-mail today.

Dear customer,

Please give us only 5 minutes of your valuable time to ask you some questions about our products . Please be aware that we will not ask you about any personal information.

In return, we will credit $90.00 to your account – just for your time.

If you want to answer our simply 8 questions , please click the link below :

(Link removed – see the image above for the link)

Thank you for helping us to become better .

Sincerely, McDonald’s Survey Department.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.

This is first time I ever saw such kind of e-mail. I never heard of McDonald’s Survey Phishing. However it is not just Survey Phising, it is more than that..

Read on..

First of all the sender is survey@mcdonald.co.uk which looks like genuine McDonald’s domain e-mail. So I decided to visit the website http://www.mcdonald.co.uk which turns out to be a redirect to

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/
categorydisplay_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_categoryId_165684_langId_-1?
cm_mmc=TradeDoubler-_-Banners-_-TextLink-_-Basic

Humm!!

What is that?

McDonald’s UK website redirecting to Halfords website?

The Halfords link is an affiliate link coming via TradeDoubler Affiliate link?

TradeDoubler is an affiliate system which companies use to promote their products and services and webmaster use it to earn money by promoting the affiliates. I’ve tried TradeDoubler in the past and trust me it is crap.

No the link doesn’t seem to come from Tradedoubler affiliate system. It has been hardcoded to make it look like it is a genuine TradeDoubler link. Nice try ;)

Let’s dig down deeper.
The e-mail came from: [58.64.162.189] (helo=mail1.joymainlife.com) which, as I guessed, is a registered and hosted in China (Hong Kong to be precise).

IP trace gives following details:
58.64.162.189 IP address location & more:
IP address [?]: 58.64.162.189 [Whois] [Reverse IP]
IP country code: HK
IP address country: ip address flag Hong Kong
IP address state: n/a
IP address city: Central District
IP address latitude: 22.2833
IP address longitude: 114.1500
ISP of this IP [?]: New World Telecom Ltd.
Organization: New World Telecom Ltd.

So I hit the great China wall, end of investigation. Nothing more can be done. If it was a UK domain I could have raised complained etc.

So what is the full story?

The e-mail is a phishing e-mail. The survey link goes to a phishing website so don’t click on that link or you will be busted. Most browsers will warn you when you click on that link, however better be safe than sorry and hold fire on your curiosity. Curiosity kills the cat ;) remember that. What happens when you really try hard to visit the phising link?

Dunno.

Anything could happen, you computer might be blown up, or Windows Operating system dies it’s blue death .. etc etc..

Hang on what about halfords?
Don’t know. You better ask Halfords or Tradedoubler and find out by yourself. I’ve to go to bed now, it is too late.

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The news of Moises Saba Masri’s death is true.

Nice story though people will fall to such e-mails easily, after all who doesn’t want to get free money and that too £16 million ;)

From: kevin_brown98@att.net

Hello friend,

I am Dr. Kevin Brown the manager Accounting / Audit Department of Credit Suisse Bank, One Cabot Square , London , England . I contacted you as regards to a business proposal that will be of an immense benefit to both of us and the less privileged ones. Being the manager accounting / audit department Greater London Regional office I discovered a sum of Ј16,500,000.00 GBP (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling) in an account belonging to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Moses Saba Masri. He was a Jewish business mogul from Mexico that died on a helicopter crash early this year. Mr. Saba was 47-years-old when both his wife, his only son Avraham (Albert) and his daughter-in-law died in a helicopter crash.

You can get more information’s as regards to the crash and the death of our late customer Mr. Moses Saba on the site web address below.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3832556,00.html?

The choice of contacting you aroused from the geographical nature of where you live particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction and the confidentiality herein. Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim of the inheritance fund but unfortunately all efforts has being void. I personally have been unsuccessful in locating neither the relatives nor any next of kin to Mr. Saba. On this regards, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin / will beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at Ј16.5 Million British Pounds can be paid to you.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages 60% to me and 40% to you. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim we are about to make. All I need is to upload your names to the documents and legalize at the British High Court in order to prove you the legitimate beneficiary. All I require now is your honest co-operation; confidentiality and trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you 100 % success and that this business transaction will be executed under the ambit of law and will also protect you from any breach of the contract.

Please provide me the following as we have 7 working days to run it through:

1. Your full name
2. Telephone number
3. Contact address
4. Age
5. Gender
6. Occupation

Having gone through a methodical search, I decided to contact you hoping that you will find this proposal interesting. Please on your confirmation of this message and indicating your interest I will furnish you with more information’s. Contact me via this Email kevin.brown@accountant.com

Your assent to this e-mail and business proposal will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Dr. Kevin Brown

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The modus operandi is simple, scrap job seekers e-mail ids from the job sites such as Monster etc and spam the unsuspecting job seekers. It is very easy to create a job hunter account on Monster and scrap job seekers data easily.

I receive this e-mail from someone who wanted to ask for my opinion on this. Apparently it seems that receiver has created account on UK job site Reed.co.uk which is a bogus job sites which populates fake and non-existent jobs and collect job seekers details and then sell to fraudsters.

I asked the receiver of this e-mail to recall all the job sites he has registered on and the only job site he could remembered was Reed.co.uk fake job site. He even never heard of  Monster as mentioned in the e-mail.

I was also asked by another friend who revealed that he has recently registered on Monster.co.uk and received such e-mail.

If you receive such e-mail click on SPAM button in your e-mail client and delete e-mail completely.

Here is the e-mail

From: lgreen@techunter.com

Hi,

I’m Gloria Hunter, HR manager of Intermpay LTD company. On site
Monster.com.
I have found your cv and want to offer you the vacancy of PayPal Manager.

Job description:

Company Humnpay LTD is seeking for new applicants for the position
“Foreign Payments’ Administrator”. Once employed – a new employee
becomes a part of big Hymnpay company “family”. Most of our agents have
been located in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia), however,
currently we are facing a great increase of interest in our services
from United States, Europe and Australia. Our company’s main goal is to
help buyers and sellers find each other! Foreign Payments’ Administrator
main duty is to accept payments from our customers and reroute them to
our local agents. This job is comission based – you receive 7% from each
transfer. All fees and taxes are covered by us. Main advantages of this
position are:
- takes only about 1-3 hours a day
- rapid career growth possibility
- does not require any initial payments from your side
Average agent’s salary is 500 to 3500 US dollars per month (depending on
numbers received payments).
We are looking for a communicative person, an extravert who is capable
of a precise and prompt execution of work instructions from the head
manager. If you are willing to apply for the position of Foreign
Payments Administrator you are over 18 years old, must have an mail
account with a stable internet access, cell phone.

If you’re interested in this vacancy, please contact us at
humnpay@ymail.comwith next details:
Full name:
Age:
At least 21 years old.
Sex:
Home address:
Telephone number (home and cell)
Current job if any
Education
Your PayPal account status (verified\unverified\business)
And reply.
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