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Re: WARNING: Paypal fraud!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:47:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Jeffery wrote:
Be careful people, I jsut got this email today:

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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!

Paypal has some very good advice related to recognising fraudulent emails here:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/general/SecuritySpoof-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 Paypal. But the information on that page can
relate to any similar emails supposedly from banks, etc.

ROSCO



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  Re: WARNING: Paypal fraud!
 
(...) I have found that its a good idea to just ignore any emails from paypal or most banks. If its important enough that they need to tell you, they will tell you via some other means. (19 years ago, 23-Oct-05, to lugnet.general)

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  WARNING: Paypal fraud!
 
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 (...) (19 years ago, 22-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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