Hey, I just got email from 2checkout:

Dear Thomas,


Someone is sending out a fraudulent email (text below) pretending to be 2Checkout.com and asking for merchants
to email their passwords. 2Checkout.com has your password and would NEVER have need to ask for it
or any of your account details in such a manner.


Please contact support@2checkout.com if you have questions or concerns or if you responded to the criminals email.




Copy of the fraudulent email


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To whom it may concern:


We recently just changed over our servers to a new Data Center and some
passwords, IP's, and other Data got missed.


You have an account with us of XXXXX


Could you please email us your username and password so we can update our
new servers and list..


Please email your info to XXXXXX for security reasons we
are using email outside our company..


Thank you for your time,


2Checkout Staff..


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Regards,


2Checkout.com Inc.


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Jeez, I cannot believe how many scamers is out there. I remember that PayPal has had the same problem.

I'm wondering what those people will do if You give them your passowrd, change your bank account details, get money and what then... FBI and others will track them down and they will go to jail.

sad:bawling:

Originally posted by VIPsNet

I'm wondering what those people will do if You give them your passowrd, change your bank account details, get money and what then...
Wire it to a numbered off-shore account? :D ;)

i think setting up offshore account is not that cheap... however i don't know how many people could send someone password ...
besides 2checkout would see that many account has the same bank account details.

I think you would be surprised how many people would send their password without thinking twice about it :(

Odd I got the same e-mail...


Dear *******************

Someone is sending out a fraudulent email (text below) pretending to be 2Checkout.com and asking for merchants
to email their passwords. 2Checkout.com has your password and would NEVER have need to ask for it
or any of your account details in such a manner.

Please contact support@2checkout.com if you have questions or concerns or if you responded to the criminals email.



Copy of the fraudulent email

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To whom it may concern:

We recently just changed over our servers to a new Data Center and some
passwords, IP's, and other Data got missed.

You have an account with us of XXXXX

Could you please email us your username and password so we can update our
new servers and list..

Please email your info to XXXXXX for security reasons we
are using email outside our company..

Thank you for your time,

2Checkout Staff..

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Regards,

2Checkout.com Inc.

How is it odd that you got the same e-mail? :confused: 2checkout is sending it to all their customers in hope of cutting down on fraud.

Got the same e-mail.. not odd, they just mailed it to all their merchants.

To the best of our knowledge, only 1 merchant has been targeted with this bogus email.

However, we felt it was in the best interest of our merchants to send a warning to all.

Any time key information is changed on an account, an email is sent to the contact email address. Attempting to change the contact email address also sends an email to the current email address.

These are our safeguards.

As for people sending their passwords, they do it all the time. They do it without question, they do it without being asked. This goes the same for their Credit Card.

I cancel at least 5 accounts a day from customers thinking we are "like PayPal", and they signup for $49.00 just to pay for a $9.00 auction purchase. You know these people have not comprehended what they are doing, they are just "following directions" and filling in the blanks.

It's downright scary...