MichaelG Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 To all of you who use paypal, beware of spoof emails.........i received this one this afternoon trying to trick me into thinking there was an unauthorized user on my account, and enter my details...... The link on it is fake, it says paypals site has been moved and to "click on another link" I would love to catch the fu*kers who make up these things and "mask" the email address as having come from Paypal. Everyone be on their guard........i reported it to paypal. Subject: plasmaseller added to your PayPal account Date: 25/04/2005 17:12:49 GMT Standard Time From: [email protected] Reply To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent from the Internet (Details) Internet Address Card Attached Y o u h a v e a d d e d , [email protected] a s a n e w e m a i l a d d r e s s f o r y o u r P a y P a l a c c o u n t . I f y o u d i d n o t a u t h o r i z e t h i s c h a n g e o r i f y o u n e e d a s s i s t a n c e w i t h y o u r a c c o u n t , p l e a s e c o n t a c t P a y P a l c u s t o m e r s e r v i c e a t : https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P a y P a l E m a i l I D P P 2 0 39 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraStar 3000 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I had about 20 in the last two weeks fcukers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale B Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I get em all the time at least one a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooper-supra Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 hate scum which do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesG Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I doubt Paypal have got the brains to deal with it. This is the company that sent me an email last week saying it was nearly Mothers Day, then a few days later sent this one: Dear James, We sincerely apologise if you received an email from us recently about Mother's Day. This email was intended for our US users, however, it was sent to a number of European PayPal users unintentionally. Given that this mail was intended for our US users, it refers to some services that are not available to European users. Yours sincerely, PayPal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
how_supra Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 I received one similar the other week- I just delete them all now - don't even open them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 I still send them all to the spoof paypal email address. The links all say paypal .com but the actualy URL they link to is completely different, easy to see if it's fake or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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