What do you guys think about this email?
January-11th-2006, 10:26 AM
#1
Clean-Up Crew
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Location: Pleasure Point, Ca.
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What do you guys think about this email?
Dear valued PayPal® member:
It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Looks fishy to me.
It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run
Thank You.
PayPal® UPDATE TEAM
Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Looks fishy to me.
January-11th-2006, 12:13 PM
#3
The Jamaican Sensation
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Montgomery, AL
Posts: 2,662
Fraud!
PAYPAL and EBAY NEVER ask you for your personal info.
I get them ALL the time & I delete them...my EBAY & PP accouint are perfectly fine.
You can actually report it to Paypal on their site.
-Phil
PAYPAL and EBAY NEVER ask you for your personal info.
I get them ALL the time & I delete them...my EBAY & PP accouint are perfectly fine.
You can actually report it to Paypal on their site.
-Phil
January-11th-2006, 12:30 PM
#5
I can has autox now?
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ASC, GA
Posts: 3,381
phishing! i got a similar email and my mom did too... sends you to a site that "looks" like your paypal login... but isnt.
https://www.mazda3club.com/off-topic-8/rant-about-scamz-40431/
https://www.mazda3club.com/off-topic-8/rant-about-scamz-40431/
January-11th-2006, 02:13 PM
#9
Forum ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: N KY
Posts: 932
I got one about 6-8 months ago. Actually got two of them, I wrote back when I got the first one and asked them WTF. I then found out it was a scam, so deleted the second one. Would have thought they caught the people doing that by now. Obviously it is still working for them.
January-12th-2006, 01:04 AM
#10
Spam Czar!!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
Posts: 2,315
Definately phishing, NEVER EVER respond to these!!! I work at a local credit union here and we get calls about this ALL the damn time! People fall for it and then they pay the price, then they call me wanting to know what happened to all their money!
January-12th-2006, 07:31 AM
#11
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 221
I have gotten the Ebay and PP emails as well. The reason I'm 100% they are a scam is because I don't have an Ebay or PP account, so why would I recieve an email from them. People do anything for money.
There now is an email scam going around asking for money for the one guy that survived that coal mine explosion. The emails originated form across seas claiming to be the hospital that treated him.
There now is an email scam going around asking for money for the one guy that survived that coal mine explosion. The emails originated form across seas claiming to be the hospital that treated him.
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