<p>“Advisory: Fraudulent emails, purporting to be from Delta, have apparently been sent to consumers in the last 24 hours. These emails claim that the recipient has purchased a Delta ticket, that a credit card has been charged, and that an invoice or receipt is attached to the email. If you have received one of these emails, do not open the attachment as it may contain potentially dangerous viruses or other malware that may harm your computer. Be assured that Delta did not send these emails, and our customers credit cards have not been charged as a result of the emails. These emails did not originate with Delta, nor do we believe that any personal information that our customers provided to us was used to generate these emails. We will continue to post updates on this page as additional information becomes available.”</p>
<p>I have gotten these also from “Ebay” and “Paypal” (frauds) as well. It makes you initially think…I did not pay for that… this must be a mistake. They want you to respond and give them info to try to “straighten this out.”</p>
<p>They were very good fakes. The first one made me think someone used my credit card to make a fraudulent purchase. That is what they want you to think.</p>
<p>Whenever you get an e-mail like this, DO NOT click on the links within the e-mail. Open a new browser window and type in the address of the site (like <a href=“http://www.PayPal.com%5B/url%5D”>www.PayPal.com</a>), so you know exactly where you’re going. Once you’re there, you can confirm whether the e-mail you got is legit or phony. </p>
<p>The ones I’ve gotten have always been phony. And most companies have fraud alert e-mail addresses for you to send the phishing e-mail to.</p>
often … <a href="mailto:spoof@company.com">spoof@company.com</a> … for example <a href="mailto:spoof@paypal.com">spoof@paypal.com</a> … companies seem to take the fake emails very seriously (makes sense the scammers are messing with their customers) so I recommend letting the companies know about the fake emails (they will want a copy of the original email)</p>
<p>I got a fake email once from CapitalOne, warning me that my credit card had been used . . . .DH and I had a good chuckle, since we don’t have a CapitalOne credit card.</p>
<p>When I get an obvious fake email from ebay or paypal, I immediately forward it to their <a href="mailto:spoof@ebay.com">spoof@ebay.com</a> or <a href="mailto:spoof@paypal.com">spoof@paypal.com</a>. An automated email comes first, but they then respond pretty quickly, typically by looking at the “details” part of the email that shows where it came from (I am not a computer person-- I am not explaining this well). The more scary thing that happened recently is that someone hijacked my ebay account and put up a fake item for sale. I dont know how they were planning to get payment for the item, (a camera) since I dont know if they also put up a fake link to paypal. I think that perhaps tsoem of the inquiries I got re: the item were really phishing for my email address if I responded to their questions about where I’d ship it to (one came from Russia) but I sent all that to ebay and they shut the fake item down. I had to change all the passwords to ebay and paypal and all that-- (they claimed I didnt need to change it with paypal but I did anyway to be safe). Sadly it seems that the number of dishonest people out there is increasing-- just be careful. And thanks for sharing the current warnings, OP.</p>