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is this BS? my spidey senses are tingly.
just got this email. (cut and pasted):
Unauthorized access to your PayPal account! We recently noticed more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address. If you accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However, if you are the rightfull holder of the account, please visit Paypal as soon as possible to verify your identity: Click here to verify your account You can also verify your account by logging into your PayPal account at If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account. We ask that you allow at least 72 hours for the case to be investigated and we strongly recommend to verify your account in that time. Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team
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The fact that "choise" and "temporaly" are misspelled is sort of a dead give away.
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Not sure of the how legit the message is, but the link goes to the real PayPal website.
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Re: is this BS? my spidey senses are tingly.
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e-mail this to paypal,they will respond to you rather quickly if it is not real.
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Go to the paypal site, see if you have any messages there. Then contact paypal through the contact button on the site, and paste the email. Seems fishy to me
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sorry, just answered my own question. nevermind.
i never read the paypal site. but they said any email sent will address us by our entire name. i fowarded it to them. i hate bad people. i bet this would nab someone like my parents.
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No way--it is legit, just ask reino757 and his nigerian heir inventor.
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And unless they use your REAL NAME, it's a scam.
Every single email I've ever gotten from Paypal has addressed me by name. No "Dear Subscriber" stuff. |
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I got one too a while back. Notified paypal. They said they would use my name and acount when contacting me.
Send them back a virus. 
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I've gotten several of those things. I don't ever use any links from the email if I'm not sure. I'll go directly to the site to see if I have any messages. 999 times out of 1000 it's a phishing wanker.
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forward it to spoof@paypal.com then delete it. DO NOT GO THERE!
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Been getting these for over a year..funny my account still works. Send them a bug.
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I looks to me like you retyped what the email said into the PP thread. If you go to the original email, right click on the link they give you and look at the properties. You will see that it directs you to some bogus site. Phishers will use fonts that in appearance look correct, but are different than the correct site. For example, in a certain font, the number "1" might appear as the letter "L", etc. so the actual address may be PAYPA1.com/.
Sneaky buggers. Hate 'em.
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NONE of these emails are legitimate. Misspellings, a "generic" to: line and a warning that your account will be, or already has been suspended are sure giveaways that the email is bogus. Some of these look real, but they aren't, just phishing schemes.
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You cannot just look at the link in the text. The text that is displayed for a link is not the same as the link itself.
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Hover, BUT DON'T CLICK, your mouse over the link - you'll see that it redirects to somewhere you don't want to go.
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Get one about once a week. Always saying that someone in Romania is trying to access my account. It goes in the "spam & virus" section of my email account...
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