Online scam? What to do? (Paypal)

Factual Questions
1

So I get an email which looks like a scam even before I read it:

So I try contact Paypal but they do not list an email address where I can send them this information. (I guess they do not want customers and other undesirables bothering them).

So I go to the mentioned website to see who hosts it and maybe notify the hoster but I am redirected somewhere and now I am lost:

So, anyone think this is worth pursuing? What should I do next? I haven’t a clue.

2

Maybe the following bit of information from this whois page might help:

3

www.paypalhelp.net brings up a “HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found” message now, and the real paypal site says nothing about a system failure. Looks like it was a scam, and it got shut down pretty fast.

4

I doubt such a poorly constructed, rambling sentence would come from a legit business site.

I hope most people this scammer contacted are skeptical like you.

5

>> Looks like it was a scam, and it got shut down pretty fast.

Shoot, how frustrating, I was hoping to become the hero who shut it down and was cheered by millions around the world as having been the savior of their life’s savings… <sigh>

6

I have gotten similiar e-mails about AOL service with pretty much the same lines. I went to the page given in the e-mail and, what a surprise, it has a field asking for my AOL password.

Definitely a scam.

7

I got something similiar from “Bank of America” yesterday. I couldn’t find the appropriate email address to forward it to on the real Bank of America site, so I sent them a question about it on their questions page. I just got a form letter in response and am trying to decide what to do next.

The scam email was particularly authentic-looking (had copyright notices and lots of small print at the bottom), and it offered free money management software if you went to the website it mentioned and entered your account info. I’d like the real bank to do something to prevent their customers from being scammed, but what can I do if they’re going to hide behind form letters and auto-response email programs? sigh

8

Hey, Ariadne. You got your scam message on a Saturday and the bank hasn’t got back to you on a Sunday?
Wait until a real human reads it on Monday.

By the way, I’ve been warned to be suspicious of emails offering things like Norton antivirus at 90% off.