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WARNING: Paypal fraud!
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:01:07 GMT
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Be careful people, I jsut got this email today:
You have added jewelryseeler@yahoo.com as a new email address for your
PayPal account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with
your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:
https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=apemail
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team.
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 header of any page.
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PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD
NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at
https://www. paypal. com/ Protect yourself against fraudulent websites
by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing
in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.
PayPal Email ID PP1309
Catch is, the paypal liks given on the page take you to www.worldmovies.com/ I’m
not telling the rest of the url, too many clicks already I suspect!
This page, when you “log in” to your paypal account, tells you that “paypal” is
performing regular maintenence, and that your account has been randomly
selected. it then asks you for your card details for verification. I would not
have caught this if not for the fact that I specifically stated I didn’t have a
credit card when I signed up for paypal. They add the email to make you want to
go to the page to complain, catch is, you have to put your card details in...
NOT GOOD. be very careful, this is an extremely well done fraud, the page looks
EXACTLY like the current paypal homepage. DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK! (though I’m
sure you have already figured that out ;)
Anyway, just giving a headsup before some poor innocent fellow out doing their
lego shopping for christmas on ebay gets caught with one of these messages!
Thanks, and happy yuletide shopping (I’ve got someo of mine done, how about
you?) Always aware,
Matt
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| (...) Snip (...) Paypal has some very good advice related to recognising fraudulent emails here: https://www.paypal.c...of-outside At least for Paypal, you can be sure if it doesn't have your first and last name in the greeting, it's not from (...) (19 years ago, 22-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)
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