TCH-Dick Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 Just another heads up, this e-mail is going around asking you to update your login info and credit card info Dear PayPal user! This message was sent to your mailbox because you have an active account. At the beginning of each month due to our database's maintenance you need to confirm your account's information. To do this please click on the following link to get to the PayPal secure page and update your credit card / debit card information. If you don't update your account in 5 days, it will be freezed. If you have any problems, please mail us. Thank you. **URL left out to make sure noone clicked on it**** The first thing that tipped me off was If you don'tupdate your account in 5 days, it will be freezed. Quote
vendlus Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 My mother actually got this one a few weeks ago. She doesn't even have an account with paypal. She was smart enough to contact me and ask my opinion before doing anything with it though. Quote
KevinW Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 you got to be so-o-o careful -- I almost was tricked the first time I received this hoax email about 6 months ago. My tipoff was that the URL link was NOT going to a secure (https://) address. -kw Quote
TCH-JimE Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 Hi, I got that email yesterday. It had the words frozen and the URL had a HTTPS:// in it but its still FAKE! Be warned people! Jim Quote
Deverill Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 I just got that one from "PayPal" and another from "Amazon". I also got one from FBI.GOV but it was so poorly worded it was obviously a fake. In all three of them the text that shows is a valid address but it is just text - the real link is somewhere else like paypalt.com which is easy to overlook. My method of dealing with these things is that if I get an email I read and delete it. If it is an account I care about I open the browser myself and go to the site and check for whatever problems may be there. Never click a link that deals with this kind of thing. Quote
TCH-Don Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 (edited) Maybe worth repeating, real email from paypal end with Thank you, The PayPal Team ---------------------------------------------------------------- PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at https://www.paypal.com/. Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by checking the URL/Address bar every time you log in. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 footer of any page. as KW says, note the secure link to PayPal Edited October 2, 2003 by turtle Quote
DarqFlare Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 Watch out for a purported Microsoft email going around that has an EXE and links in it. it's got that Swen virus, I think... All I know is Norton picked it up. This is a good thread to remind people that if you get an email from a service you are in and are not 100% completely absolutely without-a-doubt sure that it is legitimate, go to the service's website. Quote
TCH-Sales Posted October 22, 2003 Posted October 22, 2003 Seems like there's a new PayPal scam! Dear PayPal account owner! At 10.21.2003 our company has lost all accounts in the system during the database crash. You must update your account's details immediately otherwise your account will be lost in two days! Please click on the link below to get to the PayPal security update page and re-enter your account's and Credit Card / Debit Card details. If you have any problems, please mail us. Thank you. Once again, I think everybody here is a smart enough cookie not to fall for something like this, but its always better to be safe than sorry! I did some looking up on this one and it seems it's resolving from some where in the far-east. So stay on your toes! Quote
cmuskett Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 I've gotten 2 emails like this in the past week and bounced them back. I viewed the complete headers and the emails did not come from PayPal.. they were not the PayPal domain emails. I know if PayPal has a problem with your account, you are notified of it when you log in, not by email Quote
Head Guru Posted October 30, 2003 Posted October 30, 2003 I mean if your gonna scam us, please at least try to get the english proper. I must get 5 of these a day, either in the help desk or in my personal email. Jeesh! Quote
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