posted on June 7, 2004 05:45:10 PM new
I received two emails today from "Paypal" supposedly that say a new email address has been added onto my account. It has a clickable link in which I did not click on but went to my Paypal account direct instead. There is no indication of a new email address when I looked at my account. Both the emails had the same email address that was supposedly added onto my account. These came via my vendio email so I cannot forward them to Paypal as spoof. Has anyone else gotten any of these emails? Has someone hijacked my Paypal account? I have copied and pasted the email below. I also am including the heading.
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from psmtp.com (unknown [12.158.34.40])by mail.vendio.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 873E3E8D8for <[email protected]>; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:47:17 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from source ([216.158.139.100]) by exprod5mx126.postini.com ([12.158.34.245]) with SMTP;Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:47:14 PDT
Received: (from nobody@localhost)by stargazer.primenetwork.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i57MGZo11158;Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:16:35 -0700
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:16:35 -0700
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: New email address added to your PayPal account
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-pstn-levels: (S: 9.37633/99.51428 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:100.0000 C:90.6865 )
You have added [email protected] as a new email address for your
PayPal
account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with
your
account, please contact PayPal customer service at:
https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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.
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posted on June 7, 2004 06:02:19 PM new
That email did not come from Paypal. Go to the original email and mouse over the link and see if the url in the link is an exact match with what shows in the box.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on June 7, 2004 07:20:39 PM new
The scam mail has gotten SO frequent, I now automatically forward them to ebay or paypal spoof without reading them.
Ooops, I did forward one legit mail to spoof from PayPal about how to spot a scam mail...LOLOLOL
posted on June 9, 2004 09:31:31 AM new
Don't trust hovering your mouse over a link to see where it goes. It's not hard in JavaScript to show a different address in the status bar, or have the right address everywhere but a click sends it someplaces else anyways.
I received email, supposedly from PayPal so forwarded it to spoof@. Right after I sent it I realized it was legitimate. About an hour after that I got email from PayPal saying it was a spoof. Ah, the wonders of dealing with large companies.
