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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 11:42 PM
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Most of the time junk mail stays in its designated folder but this time...




Oh ok, click the link and:






Quite well done to the point where I almost put my password and username in before checking the address bar.

I dont know how widespread that email is but a lot of people would take it as authenic I think.
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 11:42 PM
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yes, look at the link address. It is not a paypal.com web address
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 11:48 PM
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ya id report these jackass'*
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 11:51 PM
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Anything from PayPal will have HTTPS at the head of the address

DEFINATELY report this ****

Always question if you're not sure at spoof at paypal.com
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 11:54 PM
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Yes...I would email this to Paypal....they will be most interested in this...gives them a bad rap...
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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by singscountry1967
Yes...I would email this to Paypal....they will be most interested in this...gives them a bad rap...
I'm sure paypal knows about them. There are tons of people out there doing this...
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 12:08 AM
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browser should also have the SECURE CONNECTION icon shown somewhere

To help you better identify fake emails, we follow strict rules. We will never ask for the following personal information in emails:

Credit and debit card numbers
Bank account numbers
Driver'* License numbers
Email addresses
Passwords
Your full name
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...ySpoof-outside
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 11:16 AM
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Never, never, never respond to emails like this. It is one thing if you initiate something with the company but never give out personal info through an email like that or over the phone. You can't be too careful these days.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 12:27 PM
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i got 2 of those emails myself last week... i reported them. There is a place on paypals website to report bogus emails
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 02:16 PM
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An easy way to check is that alot of those emails are images. If you try to highlight the text to read it, it wont highlight because it'* an image of text. Then you know it'* a scam.
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