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PayPal email: bogus or genuine?
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| posted by Lola 55 days ago |
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Just got this; anyone know if it's a scam?
Dear PayPal Member,
As part of our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment for the online community, we regularly screen account activity. While reviewing your PayPal accounts, we observed activity that we would like to further verify. For this reason, limitations have been placed on your account until your will review your registered intormation. In order to resolve the account limitations, complete our online form by clicking on the following link :
Log into your PayPal account
After we have gathered the necessary information, your account will be reviewed for reinstatement and you will be notified by e-mail of our decision.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Account Review Department
© 2008 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.
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| posted by Lola 55 days ago |
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Ah. Just answered my own question. Clicked on the link provided just out of curiousity and got warning msg from Firefox saying the page had been reported as a forgery. Link goes to a .dk site anyhoo.
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| posted by ServerGuy 55 days ago |
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Its a scam, if I remember correctly PayPal will always use your name in an email and not words like member or customer.
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| posted by adfundum 55 days ago |
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It's safe to assume that 99.9% of these types of emails are bogus and dangerous.
I/we get bombarded with this stuff as well.
If you want to check, follow your independently bookmarked link to your bank/paypal site, NEVER the link in the email.
When in doubt, chuck it out...
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| posted by flyingchair 53 days ago |
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paypal phishing is big business. As long as you manually type www.paypal.com into your browser you are safe. They do not send emails out asking you to update your account. If you need to do something they tend to tell you when you next log in.
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