Is this a Legit PayPaly Email??

bigindie · May 30, 2003 7:13AM

I'm hesitant to fill out the form and hit a submit button without knowing it's real. Anybody know if it's real?
Dear PayPal Customer

This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers and non-functioning mailboxes.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

Please confirm your email address and and Credit Card info number by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

Email Address:
Password:
Full Name #:
Credit Card #:
Exp.Date(mm/yyyy) #:
ATM PIN (For Bank Verification) #:

This notification expires May 31, 2003

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This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

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Russ · May 30, 2003 7:14AM

Scam.

Russ, NCNE

a2labmom · May 30, 2003 7:15AM

My gut feeling is DO NOT fill out any form and hit submit. PayPal will never ask for credit card info or password in this fashion, if at all.

indianabyron · May 30, 2003 7:17AM

I would guess its a scam. The thing that makes me think its a scam is they are asking you for you PIN number. there little machines out there that can do up a debit or money machine card in about 2 seconds and then if they have your PIN number they can take money right out of your account.

SCAM I would forward it to paypal

Byron

bigindie · May 30, 2003 7:25AM

Thanks Lady and Gents,
I figured it was fishy. That's why I posted it here. One of the things that tipped me off was that I think all my other PayPal emails are personalized. This one just has a generic greeting. I'm going to forward it to PayPal. Does anybody have the email address to forward it to?

Barry · May 30, 2003 7:32AM

All these sites have said repeatedly, they will never ask for password, credit info, etc. via email.

Draco · May 30, 2003 7:36AM

What a good laugh that email would have brought me. I don't believe the IQ of the "scammer" could be much more than 75. What an idiotic email

baccaruda · May 30, 2003 7:50AM

ATM Pin.... LOL

I think he'd have better luck saying "Just send $10 to: Happy Dude"

bigindie · May 30, 2003 9:34AM

The only thing that gave me pause was, what if it was for some insane reason legitimate. I wouldn't want them to shut down my account because I was paranoid. But then once I had the chance to really think about it, all the things everyone has mentioned ocurred to me.

joeyuk · May 30, 2003 10:01AM

I received this e-mail also. I went to the PAY-PAL site to see if there was any similar message and there was none. So I just deleated it and this was about a month ago and I've heard nothing sense. Joe

Conder101 · May 30, 2003 11:05PM

If for some reason they actually had a legitimite reason for needing that information they would have told you to go to the paypal website and enter it, and they would NOT have a link to take you there! That is so you can feel secure that you are at the real site when you go to it yourself

satootoko · May 31, 2003 12:02AM

Try forwarding it here, and if it bounces send it here. Paypal belongs to Ebay and the second link is where Ebay wants this kind of stuff forwarded. They respond pretty quickly.

tgilliams · May 31, 2003 1:14AM

SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Russ · June 3, 2003 9:50AM

Hey, they finally got around to sending me this scam. Funny thing is, the moron sent it to an eMail address I don't use for PayPal, and never have. It's the address I use at forums like this one.

Anybody who wants to see what it looks like as an HTML page, click here.

The "Log In" button is a submit form with this URL:

http://www.paypal.com@fredhomepage.port5.com/boyz.php

That's so cute.

Russ, NCNE

bigindie · June 3, 2003 10:07AM

Thanks for the update, Russ. You're Pop Top.

ldhair · June 3, 2003 11:56AM

I could be wrong but I was thinking the only info Paypal will ask for is a new exp. date on your card.

farthing · June 3, 2003 12:04PM

Russ, I also got the email sent to an email address I don't use for Paypal. Looking through the coding of the message it appears to redirect you from a legitimate looking Palpal address to another website if you were to click on the link.

Skipper53 · June 3, 2003 12:40PM

yep, I got a similar e-mail six weeks ago. Though cleverly crafted, it didn't catch too many
victims. By the time an investigation was started, the crooks had disappeared. Sounds like they're
still at it. BEWARE

jonesy · June 3, 2003 12:45PM

8ASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

beartracks42 · June 3, 2003 1:45PM

Paypal had a scam alert on the NBC nightly news tonight regarding this very topic.

Flash · June 3, 2003 2:25PM

I received that bogus PayPal email. I also received this one, supposedly from eBay. I found it odd that eBay would attempt to authorize any kind of payment from my credit card... especially since I haven't bid on anything in a long time.

Recently we attempted to authorize payment from your credit card we have on file for you, but it was declined.
For security purposes, our system automatically removes credit card information from an account when there is a problem or the card expires.

Please resubmit the credit card, and provide us with new and complete information. To resubmit credit card information via our secure server, click the following link:

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn

This is the quickest and easiest method of getting credit card information to us. Using the secure server will ensure that the credit card will be placed on account within 24 hours.

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All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective

They didn't even finish the sentence!

ohbaby · July 3, 2003 12:37PM

ttt

They are still at it,I got 2 emails from them today, and some still fall for it so maybe they will prevent other victims. You have to admit the link looks very very legit!

csw · July 3, 2003 12:40PM

Anyone who gives out their ATM PIN --as the supposed PayPal email requested -- deserves to get bilked. Okay, not really, but c'mon -- asking for your ATM PIN? How could that possibly be legit?

dddangerousdan · July 3, 2003 1:20PM

I guess those people don't want any of my money. I have NEVER gotten any of those scam emails

DAN

thadd · July 3, 2003 1:34PM

ATM Pin. If that isn’t enough to make you run for the hills.

JxnBoy · July 3, 2003 1:39PM

PayPal and eBay emails always start out with Dear "Name" and it's not Dear PayPal Customer unless you've signed up on eBay as PayPal Customer...

thadd · July 3, 2003 1:39PM

What’s the URL for this? We should get a few thousand of us to bomb the thing with fake information.

Okay so that would be wrong. Sure sounded fun for a minute though.

Is this a Legit PayPaly Email??

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