More PayPal Fraud

Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 @ 11:45:44 UTC in Security
by Raven

Nukeum66 writes:  
I have in the past few week received a number of these emails. If you receive any mail that seems a bit odd regarding your Paypal account, please forward the email to spoof at paypal dot com . The following is a copy of the latest spoofed email I received.CONFIRMED SPOOFED MAIL:


It has come to our attention that your PayPal Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information.
Failure to update your records will result in account termination. Please update your records in maximum 24 hours. Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future billing problems.

Please click here to update your billing records.



Thanks for using PayPal!


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Re: More PayPal Fraud (Score: 1)
by Raven (raven (_AT_) ravenphpscripts (_DOT_) com) on Friday, March 18, 2005 @ 00:01:17 UTC

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These things get more STUPID as the minutes go by! Here's the latest one I got. I get about 6 a day, it seems. Note the date. Must be a 'future' fraud alert :rotfl: These guys are such LOSERS!

Feedback Assistance

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to inform you that on Mar. 31, 2005 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

Our system requires further account verification.
Case ID Number: PP-420-219-309


We encourage you to log in and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Allowing your account access to remain limited for an extended period of time may result in further limitations on the use of your account and possible account closure.

Click here to restore your account





You can also confirm your identity by logging into your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/us/. and you will be directed to the verifying page.

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Re: More PayPal Fraud (Score: 1)
by Nukeum66
(Iam@home.now) on Friday, March 18, 2005 @ 03:37:13 UTC
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Good eye! Most people would have just looked over that! I guess there was no need to verify the email with PayPal. ...... LOL! I'm going to start a 'Hall Of Shame' for these mindless 'Bone Heads'.

 
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