Paypal fraud email

[steve802cc]

Just got this today.
Looks like someone is fishing for info.
Becareful.

"PayPal Account® Posible Fraud - Notification


Security check !

You have received this email because your account has been used from different locations by you or someone else.
For security purpose, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

In order to safeguard your account, we require that you confirm your banking details.
To help speed up this process, please access the following link so we cancomplete the verification of
your PayPal Account:



Alert code: 1366968850

link deleted


Please Note:
If we do no receive the appropriate account verification within 48 hours, then we will assume this PayPal Bank account is fraudulent and will be suspended. The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your bank account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community.

We appreciate your support and understanding and thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Regards,

PayPal - Paypal Account® Security Department

© 2007 PayPal Account & Co.

Please do not reply to this email as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

PayPal Account® Banking Departament"

 

[The Penguin]

get several a week. the easiest clue they are fake is that any email from Ebay or Paypal will always include your full name at the top of the text.

It usually says: eBay sent this message to john q public (username).

 

[EvanB85]

Thanks Steve.

Worthless, scum-of-the-earth a-holes.

 

[meatball]

I get stuff like on occasion, infact got one today, only slightly different. The one fact that I have ALWAYS found on those is that REAL paypal emails will use your whole name (ex. Dear John Doe) and not "Dear Paypal member" or in some cases, no greeting at all.

Second thing I check for is I scroll on top of the link, and NOT clicking on it, see where it goes. Most of the time its some site that has paypal no where in it, but occasionally someone gets smart and mocks it. The real paypal link will say "www.paypal.com/somerandomcraphere" The fake 'real' looking ones, have an IP number, and sometimes no www, like "209.18.176.216.paypal.com/randomcraphere" In any event, I would always call, even if I thought it was legit.

*They beat me to it!*

 

[MADMAT]

I get so many that I quit reporting them to paypal.

 

[#ZERO]

I just received one of those Paypal e-mails a few minutes ago and it’s a fake web site trying to obtain peoples passwords.

http://www.gilinux.com/phplive/setup/patch/paypal/www.paypal.com.login.submit.update.account/

 

[hangtime]

I hope you reported it to spoof@paypal.com
For Ebay it's spoof@ebay.com

Fugging scumbags

 

[SUPERJET-113]

Phishing! I get them once in awhile also. Report it so spoofs@paypal.com email address. Forward it to them, so they can do there thing..

 

[Shonuff]

And these poor sixty year-old AOL users fall for that stuff left and right. :bs2:

 

[adet16v]

My gf got one the other day. She doesnt even have a Paypal account. Explain that one. I guess they just send them to EVERY email address

 

[djyox]

I too get these all the time..

You can also tell, if you click on the link, just look up at the URL.. it it doesn't say http://www.paypal.com/ then time to leave...

 

[Mike W]

Those f'kers are slick. Unfortunatelly a lot of people fall for it. Scumbags...

 

[meatball]

I wouldnt click on those links if I were you, they could do some funky stuff with cookies if you go there...

 

[djyox]

I wouldnt click on those links if I were you, they could do some funky stuff with cookies if you go there...

good call, yeah Java stuff can make you wishing you owned a mac...