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Suspicious e-mail from service@paypal.com
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
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Should I trust this?
I recieved this e-mail in my spam-box from service@paypal.com today:
Dear PayPal user,
Your account has been flagged in our system as a part of our routine security measures. This is a must to ensure that only you have access and use of your paypal account and to ensure a safe PayPal experience. We require all flagged accounts to verify their information on file with us. To verify your information, please click here.
Thank you for using PayPal!
I am really not sure if this isn't a try from someone else to get information about my paypal account especially if I look at the link they gave me... (and it doesn't work if I click on it here at work)
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Herzliya
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Outfield - #24
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I got (3) of these yesterday about different issues supposedly with my PayPal account...it's fun to copy and paste the link from the e-mail into a browser to see the scammer at work; ironically, I also received a "real" PayPal e-mail yesterday...
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Appalachia
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It's a scam, forward it to Paypal's fraud dept.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
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I thought so....
Thanks!
and next time I think I just should read more carefully:
"...This is a must to ensure that only you have access and use of your paypal account..."
Suuuure!
(Last edited by badidea; Oct 28, 2004 at 10:02 AM.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by badidea:
[B]Should I trust this?
us. To verify your information, please click http://83.148.74.180/www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/
Thank you for using PayPal![/i]
Look at the link. Does 83.148.74.180 look legit to you? You can put whatever you want after the IP and it doesn't mean squat. All it means is that there's a directory on the scammer's server named www.paypal.com
Also watch out for http://www.paypal.com@83.148.74.180/ ...
See the @? That means whatever comes before it is a username - it can be anything. The part after the @ is the address.
Any unsolicited email that asks you click on something should be treated as a scam.
Also, turn off autoloading of images on your email - addresses are verified because the images load from their server.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by hayesk:
[B]
Originally posted by badidea:
Should I trust this?
us. To verify your information, please click http://83.148.74.180/www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/
Thank you for using PayPal![/i]
Look at the link. Does 83.148.74.180 look legit to you? You can put whatever you want after the IP and it doesn't mean squat. All it means is that there's a directory on the scammer's server named www.paypal.com
Also watch out for http://www.paypal.com@83.148.74.180/ ...
See the @? That means whatever comes before it is a username - it can be anything. The part after the @ is the address.
Any unsolicited email that asks you click on something should be treated as a scam.
Also, turn off autoloading of images on your email - addresses are verified because the images load from their server.
Actually I know everything you just told me.....don't really know though why I still had to post and ask someone else here...  
(it's cold outside and the brain is on power-save mode probably)
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