Paypal Phishing Scam
If you received an email such as this recently:
Dear PayPal Member,
We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto
your PayPal account, and multiple password failures were present before
the logins. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us.
If this is not completed by December 07, 2008, we will be forced to suspend
your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes.
We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. To confirm your Account
records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-submit&dispatch=588
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
PayPal Customer Service.
Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification.
Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
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and then it takes you to a page that looks like this:
Ok I am not even going to get into this I am just going to say that it is a fake. Its just another scam. If you want tips on spotting these scams just go to our old post on security located here “Web Fraud And How To Spot It”.
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