I received this email today. The BASTARDS! :thumbdown:

Fortunately I played it safe and sent it to PayPal's spoof center before giving any information. They confirmed that it was fraudulent.

BEWARE!

Here's the email:

[FONT=Optima]From View message header detailPayPal <client-232053@paypal.com>
Sent Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:35 am
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Subject PayPal Accounts Management



Dear valued PayPal

 

I'm confused? It has a paypal.com address. How can it be fraudulent?

 

These emails are usually so badly written that they're completely obvious phishing attempts.

Here's an example from above: "reduce the instance of fraud".

As soon as I read something like that, I know the email itself is fraudulent.

 

I think the real URL is embedded within the link. You click the link but it takes you to another website. I got one similar so I clicked on it (knowing it was fraudulent) and typed in things like:

Username: YouWish
Password: NiceTry

etc, etc...

PayPal (or a bank) will not require all that information over again through an email. It'd be pointless. If they're shutting you down, they'll just do it.

 

I get these quite often in addition to emails supposedly from banks.

If you go to the real PayPal website ,they have an email address you can forward the fake announcement to. They will respond with an email confirming the fact that it was fake.

Internet scams are getting more and more sophisticated, I feel sorry for the people that get sucked into them.

I saw an add for software that will display the true url of emails, along with other information.

 

Haha... I got these emails on my email address that wasn't even linked to paypal.

 

I check the links out they are genuine (at least in what you have here) however I doubt the letter is. I wonder why they would do that? Trojon catching your keystrokes?

 

Good question excel.

The links looked genuine to me but I figured the first page is the spoof and has genuine links to real PayPal pages.

At any rate, I ain't goin' there!

 

I'd run an updated virus/trojan check. Just to be sure...

 

i got one of those from Verified@paypal.com

it looked suspicious right from the get go.

even the links went right back to paypal.

but the most obvious was the web page going to an http://213.#.#.#. IP address.

I forwarded to spoof@paypal.com

They verified it was not from them...