The password of your PayPal account was successfully changed on Jan. 13, If you did not authorize this change, please contact the PayPal Team
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PayPal has sent out several warnings about this kind of scam. You should always make sure that the URL that is displayed in your browser’s Address field is https://www.paypal.com before you attempt to log on.
The phoney link in Frank’s message is intended to collect your login and password so the crook could log onto your account.
Frank, thanks for the reminder, but you should disable that phoney link in your message so no one clicks on it accidentally.
If you get a suspicious message (one that asks you to go to a website and enter information) claiming to be from eBay or PayPal, forward the message to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com. They’ll deal with it.
Yeah, I got a similar e-mail this week. It said PayPal was changing to a new server and needed its users to “verify registration information.” I know better than to give them my info, but I clicked just to see where it would go. It looked so much like a PayPal page. So I opened a new bowser window and logged into actual PayPal. There was nothing about that, so I knew for sure that it was a scam.
I got a similar one supposedly from e-bay a few months back. It said something like they couldn’t verify my user info or something to that effect, so I could not bid. Of course I went to e-bay (independently, not via the e-mail link) and logged in successfully. E-bay warns users that they will never ask for your password in e-mails. But the scammers make it look very official.
Another crazy spoof email came in. This time it’s US Bank and of course I have no account with them.
It says:
Dear U.S. Bank account holder,
We regret to inform you, that we had to block your U.S. Bank account
because we have been notified that your account may have been compromised by outside parties…
Further down it says:
Please be aware that until we can verify your identity no further access to your account will be allowed and we will have no other liability for your
account or any transactions that may have occurred as a result of your failure to reactivate your account as instructed below.
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
The link goes to www.usbank.com@bos.es.kr/index.htm but the text makes you think that it’s US Bank.
I reported them to the Secret Service along with message headers, etc.
If you get any email message from your bank to check your account, you should not click on it but rather always manually verify anything in your account.
Also you can hover the mouse over hyperlink and read where it is really going. The link will appear to have part of a legitimate address followed by some ofther address link like the one after the ‘@’ sign.[/u][/b]
