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**WARNING** paypal email scam
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| LiL_Kandi_AngeL |
I got an email today from paypal (so i thought) stating :
Feedback Assistance
PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
We are contacting you to inform you that on Feb. 16, 2005 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.
Our system requires further account verification.
Case ID Number: PP-420-219-309
We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.
Click here to restore your account
You can also confirm your identity by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/. and you will be directed to the verifying page.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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First off it's only Feb 10th so right away i was kinda concerned LOL
so i went to view source on the link that they provided and this is the link that they have http://starcraft.hu/.sk12/index.htm
So i figure they send you this email telling you to log in by clicking the link and it transfers you to a page that looks like paypal and you put your user name and password and BANG they have it.
So i just wanted to give a heads up to anyone that didn't know this.
I've contacted paypal and hopefully they can do something about this before someone gets scammed. |
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| DigiNut |
There isn't really anything PayPal can do about it. Those e-mails aren't an abuse of the PayPal service, they're just outright fraud committed in the name of PayPal. What they're doing is already illegal, and normally the police would be the ones to do something about it, but usually these servers are in Korea or Nigeria or some other country which hasn't made it illegal yet, so the police here have no jurisdiction.
They're scams, just like all the other scams that come through your e-mail - all you can really do is ignore them. |
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| LiL_Kandi_AngeL |
totally understand but i would like paypal to know so they can put that on their site or even email their customers..
and i put this to warn people that might not know about things like this |
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| LiL_Kandi_AngeL |
Nice..
:)
thanks |
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| E2EK1EL |
| Thank you for the info, this is really sketchy |
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| rabbitjoker |
| this is exactly why i don't use the internet. |
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| tatgirl |
| Good call Corrine! |
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| StereoPrincess |
thanks corrine.
stuff like that really gets some people and they get taken for a lot of money. |
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| TDG |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
this is exactly why i don't use the internet. |
:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:
Irony is funny. |
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| goodnet |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
this is exactly why i don't use the internet. |
You can try goodnet out for 30 days. Satisfaction guaranteed! |
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