I recently bought an item on greedbay from a seller I haven't bought from before. The location said UK, but later correspondence strongly indicates that the seller is in China and the item DID originate from China (maybe a dropshipper, maybe not.)

After delivery of the item, I got a spoof email from PP addressing me by my full name and saying that I have added a new address. The new address was correct and the same address I've had for 20 years. I did send it to PP and they confirmed it wasn't from them. It unsettled me that someone has all my info.

Now I get the following email. I have never heard of this website. The sender seems to have an oriental name. I don't know the seller's that I dealt with as they used their ID and I used PP. Am I possibly putting 2 and 2 together?

Here's the email:

Yub.com is the world's first online virtual mall, letting you earn up to 25% cash back when you shop America's top brands, including Buy.com, Gap, Apple, Dell, Macy's, Art.com, and Target. Just like a real world mall, there are other mall shoppers that you can choose to interact with as you shop - or you can choose to shop privately.


Here is the link to join:

http://xxxxxxxxxx

-sender's name

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Yub.com is the world's first online virtual mall, letting you earn up to 25% cash back when you shop America's top brands, including Buy.com, Gap, Apple, Dell, Macy's, Art.com, and Target. Just like a real world mall, there are other mall shoppers that you can choose to interact with as you shop - or you can choose to shop privately.

(sender) has invited you to set up an account and be a friend on Yub.com, which means you and (sender) can start using the site together, but before you can be added as one of (sender's) trusted friends, Yub needs your confirmation.

Membership in Yub is free, and it takes less than 60 seconds to sign up.

- The Yub Team

By the way, I didn't click the yub link, but just went directly there to see what it was. My MAMA didn't raise no dummy!

You might want to send that into an internet tips line, such as http://www.ic3.gov because it looks far more organized and multinational than your average little check-bouncer.

The part about being PP hacked with your own previously undisclosed address is a scary element in your story.

That address thing really bothers me especially when it's attached to a fake PP website. It has to be someone I've either bought from or sold to in order for all that information to be available. I have tried to read heders myself before, but they just boggle my mind. And then the other email so soon afterward and, I'm sorry, being from China. I don't like it at all.

Will that website know how to decode the header?

becky, see the "gov" at the end? that tells you it is a US gov't agency. Those "gov" domains are not available to the private sector. IC3 is the internet fraud arm of the FBI.

I love all the .gov sites. I go there often to learn things as well as "tip" them to certain things I've come across on the net. The FBI site has a wealth of info.

Yes, and I am glad they have that to check. I remember a neighbor of mine trying to start a political letter-writing campaign because she said the IRS had charged her $3 apiece for blank 1040 forms!

She had gone to IRS.COM and ordered them! *LOL*

That was a few years ago, and I think that site must have been the inspiration for the .gov !

LOL!!