Posted: 3/3/2004 1:43:59 PM EDT
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FYI folks. I received this email today. I intentionally left the link cold. Below is the reply from Paypal.
Paypal's reply:
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Quoted: FYI folks. I received this email today. I intentionally left the link cold. Below is the reply from Paypal. Dear [email protected], We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the PayPal network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. Click below in order to regain access to your account: [red]https://www.paypal.com[/red]/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run For more information about how to protect your account, please visit PayPal's Security Center, accessible via the "Security Center" link located at the bottom of each page of the PayPal website. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire PayPal system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Sincerely, 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. PayPal Email ID PP198 PayPal Email ID PP316 Return-path: Received: from host4net.host4net.com (unverified [65.18.143.47]) by out-mail-002.outdrs.net (Vircom SMTPRS 3.0.282) with SMTP id Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:22:20 -0500 Received: (from apache@localhost) by host4net.host4net.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i235Kkr00413; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:20:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:20:46 -0500 Message-Id: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [ Spam] Notification of PayPal Limited Account Access From: [email protected] Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; X-Spam: [FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF,0,33]"\Hoax\Normal" <0> Paypal's reply: Dear Outdoors Unlimited, Thank you for contacting PayPal. Thank you for bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We can confirm that the email you received; was not sent to you by PayPal. [red]The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal.[/red] We are currently investigating this incident fully. Please do not enter any personal or financial information into this website. If you have surrendered any personal or financial information to this fraudulent website, you should immediately log into your PayPal Account and change your password and secret question and answer information. Any compromised financial information should be reported to the appropriate parties. If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by following the instructions below: 1. Go to [red]https://www.paypal.com/[/red] 2. Click on the Security Center at the bottom of the page 3. Click on "Report a Problem" 4. Select the Topic: Report Fraud 5: Select the Subtopic: Unauthorized use of my PayPal Account, and click Continue. 6. Follow the instructions to access the appropriate form If you have any further questions, please let us know. Sincerely, The PayPal Team Ummm... am I blind? This is the URL in the "fraudulent" email: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run and then PayPal replies stating, "The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal., but then they tell you to go to: https://www.paypal.com/ It looks like its the same site to me.... |
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Quoted: Quoted: [red]https://www.paypal.com[/red]/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run [red]The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal.[/red] 1. Go to [red]https://www.paypal.com/[/red] Ummm... am I blind? This is the URL in the "fraudulent" email: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run and then PayPal replies stating, "The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or used by PayPal., but then they tell you to go to: https://www.paypal.com/ It looks like its the same site to me.... The link sent in the email is a hyperlink, not a copy-n-paste link. If you follow it you will be linked to something like [email protected] which is a site made to appear exactly like PayPal, only all the stuff you type into the username/password area will be archived for the badguys to see. |