posted on May 24, 2004 08:38:13 AM new
I received this, purportedly from paypal, filtered by my ISP.
Dear (email address),
We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account may
have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security
of your account and of the PayPal network is our primary concern.
Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to
sensitive PayPal account features.
Click below in order to regain access to your account: (email deleted)
while still awaiting ppal's answer to my email,
any enlightenment is appreciated.
mm
posted on May 24, 2004 09:49:34 AM new
I received it yesterday also. If I receive any email that asks for any kind of information, I ALWAYS send it to [email protected] I must have send 30-40, and every one has been a spoof. I NEVER click on a link, for updating microsoft, virus scan updates etc, I always go directly to the appropriate site and do the updating from there. There are too many people out there trying to scam as many of us as they can.
posted on May 24, 2004 10:03:39 AM new
I got a PayPal one yesterday and when I ran my mouse over the link I got the ISP # and traced it to Taiwan.
The last few months I started to sell on some IDs that had sat idle for years and had never received a spoof e-mail but as soon as the IDs were active the spoofs started arriving.
I keep forwarding identical ones to ebay and I wonder if they ever do anything about them as they all seem to be from the same place. You'd think they'd try to shut them down after so many reports wouldn't you?
posted on May 24, 2004 02:02:25 PM new
Yep! I received it also. I got tired of forwarding these spoofs to eBay (I have received several), now I just delete them.
posted on May 24, 2004 04:44:44 PM new
ME TOO!! Just opened my PM email & there it was. I immediately sent it to Spoof & got an immediate answer that it was not from eBay nor PayPal.
posted on May 24, 2004 04:52:41 PM new
Here's the one I got today. Headers are down at the bottom.
Clearly not legit.
Notice there's a link to change password in the body of the email then down at the bottom they've copied the PayPal admonition to log in only at the PayPal site.
Jeeze... these people...
Lucy
Dear customer,
We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account
from a foreign IP address:
If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in
attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you did not initiate
the log ins, please visit PayPal as soon as possible to change your
password:
Changing your password is a security measure that will ensure that you are
the only person with access to the account.
Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account.
Sincerely,
The PayPal Team
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PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD
NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at
https://www.paypal.com/. Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by
opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing
in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
"Help" link in the header of any page.
PayPal Email ID PP418248
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
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