Careful what you reply to

[El Pirata]

I just got this incoming:

Dear PayPal Valued Customer,


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:
https://www.paypal.com/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

One word of advise for those of you not cyber-wise. If you get anything link this DO NOT click on the link they provided, access the page as you normally would and try logging in that way. The above link looks official but it was a scam to gain your password and username so they could steal from you.

As luck would have it, the link that was under the paypal link is gone and I already deleted the e-mail. Oh well.


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How can I tell the difference between a real PayPal email and a fake one?

The term "spoofing" and "phishing" have been used to describe the act of collecting personal information using a fake email in order to commit identity theft, credit card, and Internet fraud. If you click on a link included in an email you're not sure is from PayPal, make sure the adress at the top of the browser window you're brought to reads exactly www.paypal.com/us. PayPal emails will address you by first name, last name, or business name, and NOT by "Dear PayPal User" or "Dear PayPal Member."

If you are ever uncertain about the validity of the email or the email links, open a new web browser window and type in www.paypal.com/us.

If you think you have received a fraudulent email, forward the entire email to [email protected] and then delete it from your email account.


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[Domination]

and its a tell tale sign of ibeing a scam because paypal always adresses you with your first and last name not (paypal customer/member

 

[El Pirata]

Forgot about that one.

 

[Maxx Trooper]

yea i just got that e-mail too, i thought it was suspesous looking so i deleted it.

later

 

[Error401]

I just got a nifty HTML email that I think is the same thing. Looks just like a PayPal page.

the link that was in the html email that said to click here, was directed at this IP: 218.62.43.30

A whois on whois.apnic.net (asian pacific nic, like arin) yielded this info:
Whois has started ...

% [whois.apnic.net node-1]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

inetnum: 218.62.0.0 - 218.62.127.255
netname: CNCGROUP-JL
country: CN
descr: CNCGROUP jilin province network
admin-c: CH444-AP
tech-c: WT92-AP
status: ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE
changed: [email protected] 20031016
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-lower: MAINT-CNCGROUP-JL
changed: [email protected] 20040301
source: APNIC

person: CNCGroup Hostmaster
nic-hdl: CH444-AP
e-mail: [email protected]
address: No.156,Fu-Xing-Men-Nei Street,
address: Beijing,100031,P.R.China
phone: +86-10-82990775
fax-no: +86-10-82990885
country: CN
changed: [email protected] 20031027
mnt-by: MAINT-CNCGROUP
source: APNIC

person: Wang Tiegang
nic-hdl: WT92-AP
e-mail: [email protected]
address: 96,JieFang Road ChangChun 130021 China.
phone: +86-431-8925217
fax-no: +86-431-8925190
country: CN
changed: [email protected] 20030117
mnt-by: MAINT-CNCGROUP-JL
source: APNIC


Fell free to complain, though I don't think it will do much good.

Do not fall for this scam!

 

[cajunVFR]

Also watch out if you are on Ebay. The assholes sent a sinilar page to me about 3 weeks ago and then the same one you got.
Never give out your personal info for anybody. They know who you are and will not ask you in an E-mail.
If you have a concern, call the company on the phone.