WARNING: Paypal fraud e-mail

[robmob]

If you receive an email that looks to be from paypal like the one shown below, beware it is fraudulant and someone is just trying to get your username and password. While the link pasted here actually takes you to a real paypal link, in the e-mail is does not and takes you to a place that just looks like a paypal page.

-Rob


Dear PayPal valued member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of your paypal
account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your account information
needs to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and
spoof reports.

Please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and
renew your records so you will not run into any future problems
with the online services. However, failure to update your
records will result in account suspension.

Once you have updated your account records your PayPal
account service will not be interrupted and will continue as
normal.

Please follow the link below and login to your account
and renew your account information:

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

Sincerely,
PayPal customer department!

This notification expires on the 17th of August, 2004.

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.
To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences here.

 

[hb1111]

they always send this poop i hope they catch that a@@hole,there are the same kind from ebay,there is a a email address for both paypal and ebay just forward them there and they wil investigate it

 

[robmob]

I always forward them on to paypal or ebay. Not sure what they can do besides issueing warnings to their users.