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Emails From "paypal" - Please Read!

Snowbaby

Snowbaby

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Hi everyone,

Yesterday I received the following email from "PayPal Customer Support" <support@paypal.com> :

SUBJECT: Update Your PayPal Account

EMAIL:



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Dear PayPal member,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we have
detected a slight error in your account information.

This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e.change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An inability to accurately verify your account information due to an
internal error within our processors.

Please update and verify your information by clicking the link below:

LINK REMOVED

If your account information is not updated within 48 hours then your ability
to use the account will become restricted.

Kenneth Pavet,
PayPal Safe Harbour Department
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Although I do have a PayPal account, this email was received into an email address NOT registered with PayPal. I went to the paypal website (not via the above link) and sent them an email asking if this was genuine. I got a reply back today saying no, this was a fake email.

Please watch out if anyone happens to receive anything like this. Don't use the link in the email to log into your PayPal account!! [/b]
 
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Thank you for contacting PayPal. We appreciate you bringing this
suspicious email to our attention.

Commonly referred to as phishing, these emails are sent by fraudsters in
an attempt to collect sensitive personal or financial information from
the recipients. PayPal takes phishing threats seriously.  Our fraud
prevention specialists are working 24/7 to help protect you and enable
the community to stay safe.

After review, we can confirm that the email you received was not sent by
PayPal. Any website which may be linked to this email is not authorized
or used by PayPal.

Our fraud prevention team is working to disable any website linked to
this email. In the meantime, please do not enter any information into
this website. If you have already done so, you should immediately log
into your PayPal account and change your password, as well as your
security questions and answers. We also recommend that you contact your
bank and credit card company immediately.

If you notice any unauthorized activity on your PayPal account, please
report it to us by following the instructions below:

1. Log in to your account only from the PayPal website.  Do not use
links provided in any email.

2. Click on the Security Center link at the bottom of the page.

3. Click on the 'Unauthorized Transaction' link under the Report a
Problem column.

4. Follow the instructions on this page in order to access the
appropriate form.

Lastly, we recommend taking a few steps to protect yourself from
identity theft:

> Download the SafetyBar, a toolbar for Outlook and Outlook Express,
which identifies known spoof emails.
> Get eBay Toolbar with Account Guard which warns you when you're on a
potentially fraudulent (spoof) Web site.
> Frequently monitor your account for suspicious activity.

For additional tips please visit the PayPal Security Center at
http://www.paypal.com/security.

Once again, thank you for reporting this suspicious email.  Your
vigilance helps us in our efforts to protect the PayPal community. If
you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.

Sincerely,

PayPal
______________________________

Important: PayPal and its representatives will NEVER ask you to reveal
your password. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy. If anyone
claiming to work for PayPal asks for your password under any
circumstances, by email or by phone, please refuse and immediately
contact us via our secure webform online.


************************************************************************
This
email is sent to you by the contracting entity to your User Agreement,
either PayPal Inc or PayPal (Europe) Limited. PayPal(Europe) Limited is
authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK
as an electronic money institution.
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If any of you get an email like this, you can forward it to spoof@paypal.com[/b]
 
Also most places like paypal will always use your name or user name not dear member
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and well if your receiving it in say hotmail you can hover over the link.. if it dont say paypal.com or ebay.com in the status bar at the bottom left, eg. it says (imgonnascamyou-paypal.com or the likes do not click it
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i'll do a visual lesson later lol
 
i get loys of these , as i rarly use paypal , i tend to delete them
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i get so many odd emails from abnks and stuff , i have takent ot the belief ,"if i dont know you personally "i delete you
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too many scams
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it dont really matter what u use to pay for things there will always be scammers out there trying to scam you using whatever method of payment you use
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the best thing is knowing how to identify emails from scammers
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Originally posted by Bubbles@Jan 8 2006, 07:41 PM
it dont really matter what u use to pay for things there will always be scammers out there trying to scam you using whatever method of payment you use
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the best thing is knowing how to identify emails from scammers
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Too true Bubbles...I'd also say that if you are worried about an e-mail just ignore it.
 
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