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The purpose of this page is to give its readers a resource for finding ways to report e-mail spoofing to the necessary organizations that are being spoofed. One of the fastest growing crimes with regards to online websites is something called e-mail spoofing, this is particularly common with websites that handle sensitive information such as credit cards or your address.

In case you’re not familiar with the term e-mail spoofing, I will explain briefly what that is and how you can take steps to avoid being scammed. Before you can protect yourself against e-mail spoofing you need to know what it is, simply put, e-mail spoofing is when a hacker or some other person intent on doing you harm sends out an e-mail. The problem here is that this e-mail often times looks very, very similar to the company they are spoofing. The difference of course being if you click on the links inside this e-mail you are not directed towards a website that’s owned by the company they are pretending to be, instead you are sent to a website that often times also looks very similar to the official website, in an effort to gather login information or sometimes credit card information from innocent people that might have mistaken the e-mail is legitimate e-mail.

Let me give you a better example to help put this into perspective:

Say you have a PayPal.com account you’ve been using this account for three or four years and had no problems with it whatsoever, all the sudden in your e-mail you get a very official looking e-mail from PayPal saying your account has been suspended, in order to verify your identity they need you to login at this website, inside the e-mail would be a link to a website which would ask for your username and password. The unsuspecting user might follow this advice thinking it rather harmless, however, they would be wrong, instead of verifying their account as the e-mail claimed, they would be they would instead be filling out an information gathering form that will collect their username and password so that at a later time It could be used to pillage their PayPal account. Once the act has been done and the user realizes they were scammed, they’re often dumbfounded by the sheer fact that not only did the e-mail look official (often times going as far as to use actual logos for the company), but the website looked identical to the legitimate website.

Sites such as PayPal and eBay have realized how easy it is to fall into this trap, so they began educating their users as to what to look for that only PayPal developers would include and e-mails. In addition to doing this they also set up special e-mail addresses where users can forward e-mails they suspect to be spoofing e-mails, PayPal fraud teams or eBay fraud teams then take these e-mails and evaluates them, if they are in fact fraudulent e-mails, They then go about whatever internal means they use to try and close down the offender, I’m not exactly sure what process they go through to shut these people down, and frankly I really don’t care mainly because the do their job and 95% of the time, If you forward them an e-mail from an attacker the attackers shut down within a few weeks.

So what is all this have to do with this page? Simple, here I will try my best to generate a list of e-mail addresses for specific services that I use and that the community uses this would allow the user to be able to have fraudulent e-mails forwarded to the company in an effort to shutdown the offender. Now I’m not exactly sure if other companies are following PayPal and eBay’s lead, or if it just happened to be a coincidence that all these companies have the same idea.

There are two parts to this website section, the main page, which you are reading now, which also contains the list of e-mail addresses. Also, there’s a section for adding e-mails that we may not have listed, however these e-mail addresses will be tested by our team before they are made public at least on the site. The reason for this is to ensure the utmost safety for our readers, often times if a corresponding knowledge base article can be found on the company’s website that lists the e-mail address, then this will also be linked next to the e-mail so that you can verify for yourself that this is legitimate.

I know a lot of this is just a long-winded talk on my part, but I think it’s super important to understand as much about this type of thing as possible to prevent yourself from being the next victim.

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