New Paypal Phishing Email

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• commoncents123 Posts: 2,648 ✭

  April 26, 2009 11:41AM

  I've seen those before, even ones which use my real name. The key is to make sure you use Firefox and open a fully new window and manually go to the website...never through a link. You will learn if there is a problem once you've logged in.

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• RayNY2E Posts: 438

  April 26, 2009 11:54AM

  
  
  << <i>Hey, just got this a little while ago.. It's a nice paypal phishing email (copy and pasted here). If you get one of these do not click the link and login, if you do make sure to change your password ASAP.
  
  "From: PayPal <msgcenter@webssl.com>
  Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:23:30 PM
  Subject: Notice
  
  We regret to inform you that access to your account has been temporarily limited.
  
  This has been done due to several failed log-in attempts.
  
  Case ID: AX-272-32-55
  
  To restore your account please log in correctly.
  
  If you fail to log in correctly your account will be suspended for fraud prevention.
  
  You will be able to register again for PayPal only after you authenticate your profile.
  
  We apologize for the inconvenience, this measure was taken for your protection.
  
  PayPal Security Team" >>
  
  
  
  
  Any Like This should be sent to Spoof@paypal.com soo they can deal with it,Then Delete it. Ray in Florida..

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• soty27 Posts: 1,956

  April 26, 2009 12:01PM

  Already sent it to paypal Just wanted to let people here know in case they have never seen one.

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• Coll3ctor Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭

  April 26, 2009 12:11PM

  I received the same exact one hours ago.

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• garsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭

  April 26, 2009 12:19PM

  Never go to PayPal through a web link login directly each and every time, this will greatly reduce your chances of being scammed

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• coinandcurrency242 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭✭

  April 26, 2009 1:56PM

  I have gotten these emails so many times!! make it stop!!!

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• astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 27, 2009 12:09AM

  I just received this one, using my real name. Of course, I logged into my account (not through the link) and there was nothing to resolve. This is the second time in a few months I have received this one.
  
  Anyone else get this email?
  
  Anyone know how the phisher can get real names (other than if I had a prior transaction with them or they knew me)?
  
  I notified PayPal.
  
  Lane
  
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  Dear Lane Brunner,
  
  As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:
  
  We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated with this account. As a precaution, we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to protect against future unauthorized transactions.
  
  Case ID Number: PP-594-780-436
  
  In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement, your account access will remain limited until the issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, if access to your account remains limited for an extended period of time, it may result in further limitations or eventual account closure. We encourage you to follow our verification procedure as soon as possible to help avoid this.
  
  Click here to login and restore your account access
  
  Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access. We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.
  
  This is a final reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible.
  
  We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.
  
  Sincerely,
  PayPal Account Review Department
  PayPal Email ID PP-594-780-436

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• IloiloKano Posts: 1,051

  April 27, 2009 1:51AM

  I've received emails to a yahoo account that matches my ebay account, though that is not the email address I used to register with ebay. My thoughts were that the scammer sends emails to ebay and paypal ID's with "@yahoo.com" added as an email extension, in order to add some semblence of an official ebay or paypal notice to their scams. They may even check to see if the Yahoo account includes identifying information, in order to include that in a fraudulent email as well. Perhaps this scam may even be expanded to include "@hotmail.com", "@msn.com" etcetera, since people often use similar online ID's, and maybe that is how a scammer was able to include one poster's real name.
  
  In any case, no such scam will be effective if you simply log into your ebay or paypal account directly and ignore any links supplied in the email.

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• Coll3ctor Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2009 7:37AM

  Someone is hard at work as I just received another one
  
  
  "We regret to inform you that access to your account has been temporarily limited.
  
  This has been done due to several failed log-in attempts.
  
  Case ID: AX-269-32-44
  
  To restore your account please log in correctly.
  
  If you fail to log in correctly your account will be suspended for fraud prevention.
  
  You will be able to register again for PayPal only after you authenticate your profile.
  
  We apologize for the inconvenience, this measure was taken for your protection.
  
  PayPal Security Team"
  

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2009 7:42AM

  I'm on so many scammer mailing lists that I often the 2 to 5 copies of each scam within seconds or minutes of each other (including this one). --Jerry

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