Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

As bigmike said a few weeks ago he got a good paypal scam, I got one tonite, just want you to be advised I just about entered my information in.

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Dear PayPal valued member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of your PayPal
account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your account information
needs to be updated due to inactive membership.

Please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and
renew your records so you will not run into any future problems
with the online services. However, failure to update your
records will result in account suspension.

Once you have updated your account records your PayPal
account service will not be interrupted and will continue as
normal.

Please follow the link shown bellow, login to your PayPal
and renew your records:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run


Sincerely,
PayPal customer department!

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The link, the email from paypal everything looks valid. Its a perfect email to scam on, they ask that you update your information. It's werid too, the address bar shows that you are logging into "https://www.paypal.com" so everything looks right, but the website did not have a SSL connection so I thought it was funny. If you do accident login using this link besure to open a new window and log directly into paypal and change your password immeidatly. I sent paypal a email and in about 2 mins they responded saying this was a spoof email. Something that is really easy to notice if its a scam email, paypal always calls you by your First name in its emails. Spoofs would be your Email@whatever.com or Valued customer in this case.

So, just a heads up ;)

Jeff

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

That sucks... I've yet to get this e-mail... I wonder how many people actually fell for it :-X

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

Oooh ----, I've been hearing about that one. Good catch there Jeff. If I ever saw that I'd know it's a fraud... Unfortunately my Paypal account is on hyperactive :'( I got to slow down with buying ---- for my car :'(

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

ya i got one a lil bit ago i just deleted it..

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

;DNever had to update it yet.I had purchase the upgrade years ago when i first got on.Have had a few emails to my recollection but i never did update i just deleted it till when i logged on to my account it needed updated info.Thats my .02 worth.

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

good catch jeff

i get emails like that all the time for my hotmail email account. go here and do this or your account will be deleted or suspeneded. i always delete. if i go to log in to my account, and it's not there, oh well, guess it was real, but i just don't really trust anything that comes in the form of an email, unless i know for sure who it's from or what it's about.

i've even got bogus emails from an email account of friends. or like, uses a similar variation of their email or something. it's lame.

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

Good Lookin out.

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

I get the email all the time but lately iv been getting it a lot. Sadly a lot of people dont know better but id rather see my account get locked than give someone a shopping spree on my account.

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

I got something similar when I logged onto AOL last week. It said that there was a fault in the password and for me to reener my passwords. So I did, and once it went threw it said that it would send me a email with the "fault" and I never got that email. AOL always sends a blue email. Needless to say. I went threw and change all my passwords. WATCH OUT FOR SCAMMERS! >:(

Re:Be advised, Paypal Scam
 

yeah jeff i tried to tell homeboy in the other post this one was better than the rest. he still refused to read anything than the first few words of the post. iam a network admin and other ----, and i fell for it cause i had been ripping up paypal with my new credit card so it seemed normal for them to be concerned cause all the ---- i was buying was different. i gave them my password and when it asked for credit card info i changed my password on the real paypal in just a few seconds. then i went back to the spoofed link and saw that you can input any name and password and it would take it. i usually call the adminis of the IP this ---- is being hosted on but that one i got was hosted in korea and iam not on par with my korean but if its an american site i call the ------- admin up and tell the fucker. who knows he might be the one running the spoof or just is to stupid with security to lock his ---- down.