Pay Pal Scam Watchout!!!

[Eddie]

I just got this email...........



From: "www.paypal.com" <service@paypal.com> Save Address Block Sender This Is Spam
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
CC:
Subject: Please Restore Your Account Access
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:29:30 +0900
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PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of customers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to remind you that on 2 iun 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you for the following reason:

We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.


This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.

To securely confirm your PayPal information please click on the link bellow:



https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run



We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

For more information about how to protect your account please visit PayPal Security Center. We apologize for any incovenience this may cause, and we apriciate your assistance in helping us to maintain the integrity of the entire PayPal system.



Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

I couldnt understand it as I just got verified 2 days ago so I went directly to PayPal and looked into their info on scams and they said to forward the suspect email to them and they would verify if it came from them.

This was their response after receiving the bogus email.


Thank you for contacting PayPal.

We appreciate you bringing this suspicious email to our attention. We
can confirm that the email you received was not sent to you by PayPal.
The website linked to this email is not a registered URL authorized or
used by PayPal. 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 in to your PayPal account
and change your password and security question and answer information.
Any compromised financial information should be reported to the
appropriate parties.

Please forward the entire email - including the header information - or
the site's URL to spoof@paypal.com We investigate every spoof reported.
Please note that the automatic response you receive from us may not
address you by name.

If you notice any unauthorized activity associated with your PayPal
transaction history, please immediately report this to PayPal by
following the instructions below:

1. Log in to your account at htpps://www.paypal.com
2. Click on the Security Center at the bottom of the page.
3. Click on "Unauthorized Transaction" under the "Report a Problem"
column.
4. Enter the Transaction ID for each unauthorized transaction in your
PayPal account. If you do not have any transactions to enter, click
"Continue."
5. Fill out the information and click "Continue."
6. Review the information and click "Submit" to file your claim.

For additional tips, please click on the Security Center link at the
bottom of any PayPal page.

We appreciate your efforts to keep PayPal safe.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department


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[compirate]

Paypal will always address you by name in their emails not 'paypal member'.

The easiest way to tell a good from a bad!

[Tulsa]

It's a easy as never clicking a link in an email. Go directly to the paypal site from your browser and you'll be fine.

I wish there was a good way to find and nuke these scam artists!

[Lddrizzt]

Foward it to spoof@paypal.com They like to get these.

[luckydog]

I get those about once a month

[fronzdan]

I get those all the time. If you look at the source code for the email you can see the real address that the link would take you to. The one shown to you in the email is just a label for the link, made to look like the actual PayPal address. Once you get the real address you can do an IP search and can usually pinpoint the general area/country where the scammers are. Personally all the ones I've bothered to trace back have all been in Europe...usually from one of the ex-Soviet countries.
Once I managed to trace back to one of the creep's personal web page. It was a 18 year old punk studying Comp Sci. in Ukraine. It had his and all his friends pictures and he was boasting about past scams and pirating. I left some real "nice" comments for the kid. I gave the info to PayPal, but I doubt they ever did anything about it (or could for that matter).

[slotter]

What Tulsa said above.

[Sid]

Damn Scammers...

[luckydog]

send all scam emails to Jano.com.

He can use all the ideas he can get

[Sid]

no need to encourage jano....