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[colorteck]

Man I will tell you! How many people do you think fall for this?

http://67.15.113.108/process/paypal/update/



Dear Paypal valued member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the 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 members, frauds and spoof reports.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and renew
your records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension
This notification expires on 48 hours.

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

Please follow the link below and login to your account
and renew your account information
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Sincerely,
Paypal customer department!

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.

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If you get an email like this one do not enter your logins

[akashik]

Yep, got that one too. Sent it through SpamCop. The IP address belongs to EV1, so it's up to them to shut off that account.

[Corey Bryant]

I get them all the time. even from some banks I have never even heard of

[porcupine]

All it takes is one in a million generally speaking for it to be worthwhile to the scam artists. I'm sure for every few million people hit with this, theres at least a few morons who fall for it.

[Martinez]

Instead of saying Dear Paypal valued member or what have you, I believe all legitimate Paypal emails will actually say Dear *your name here*,

Not sure if this is a fail safe quicky for reference or not but worth mentioning as it's the first thing that tips me off to this type of scamming activity.

[DecentHost]

Yes I got one too

[porcupine]

*sniff* PayPal doesen't value me as a member I guess

[WireNine]

I use to get a lot of those, but not anymore.

[2003m2003]

Originally posted by Martinez
Instead of saying Dear Paypal valued member or what have you, I believe all legitimate Paypal emails will actually say Dear *your name here*,

Yes, you are correct, I noticed that all personal email come with name, other than just news/information.

[Rice]

Yea i get that stuff also...

[HostingFroggy]

I've gotten many saying "You've sent a payment to Phonebuyer", yet I haven't. It always says I sent about $200+ each time too.

They go straight to my delete box.

[security]

But the link actually goes to the PayPal website, so what's the problem? i.e. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

[Omnisage]

the email is a webpage, the address shown is not where you are taken if you click

[Captian_Spike]

Ya, I've gotten varios emails like that before. Including one where "john" sent me $1286.00

They put an exact replica of paypals website in the email, you can then use the login box right from there. What people don't realize is when you click submit it posts the data to the scamers server. A good scammer would have thier script record the data, then repost to paypal, the user doesn't even know they went somewhere other then paypal. (well, until there credit card gets maxed and the bank account is cleared out.)

[Bodeba]

Originally posted by porcupine
All it takes is one in a million generally speaking for it to be worthwhile to the scam artists. I'm sure for every few million people hit with this, theres at least a few morons who fall for it.

LMAO theres no need to call them morons, they dont know as much as you or I but they are far from morons. I class the people who operate the scams morons, not the people who fall for them.

They say ignorance is bliss, i say that saying needs to be upgraded.