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Sensual Casanova
Spoiled Brat
Join date: 28 Feb 2004
Posts: 4,807
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09-26-2007 19:01
PayPal Spammer Scammers are at it again... I got this email on both of my PayPal accounts (with different email addresses) Make sure to never reply or click the links to this crap especially w/o contacting PayPal to make sure it is safe, also remember if it is a legit email it will ALWAYS have your account name not "Dear member" Please Update Your Account Dear valued PayPal member: It has come to out attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as . part of .our continuing. commitment to protect .your account and to reduce the instance of .fraud on our website. If you .could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online services. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before September 26, 2007. Once you have updated. your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. To update your PayPal records click on the following link: (Deleted link for your own safety  ) PayPal, Inc. P.O. Box 45950 Omaha, NE 68145 Sincerely, PayPal |
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Rooke Ayres
Likes Shiny Things
Join date: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 293
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09-26-2007 19:10
Thanks for the notice.
It's wonderful that someone is thoughtful enough to recycle old spam scams and try to catch a few noobs off guard.
Next we'll be seeing recycled, "Help me get my zillion dollars out of [add your favorite small 2nd/3rd world country here]."
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Har Fairweather
Registered User
Join date: 24 Jan 2007
Posts: 2,320
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09-26-2007 19:42
Sounds like an amateur. I got two of these notices, and I don't even have a Paypal account, nor ever even logged on to their website.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
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09-26-2007 21:04
I get these all the time, there's ususally some in the Gmail spam folder, a few such messages amidst hundreds of Viagra and enlargement messages. There's an email address at paypal you can forward these messages to, but if you use Gmail the act of forwarding a message seems to make Gmail think it's not spam in your eyes.
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Elora Lunasea
Mrs. Llama
Join date: 28 Aug 2007
Posts: 4,828
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09-27-2007 05:41
Best thing to do is forward these directly to Paypal. Email is: [email]spoof@paypal.com[/email]
They want to hear about these and will send you a nice email back thanking you for your time, and letting you know that indeed, these were fake emails phishing for your personal info.
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Alyx Sands
Mental Mentor Linguist
Join date: 17 Feb 2007
Posts: 2,432
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09-27-2007 10:27
You don't want to know how many of these, and the Ebay variety too, I get....I automatically forward these to [email]spoof@paypal.com[/email] or the same @ebay.com....
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