Paypal scam

[Bob Swenson]

Beware of the Paypal scam:mad:
I recieved this email over the weekend and sent a copy
to Paypal. If you get an email like this and click on
verification you will go to sign in, any email address
and pass word will get you to the next page where they
want you to update your credit info. It's very slick

From: paypal@paypal.com
Date: 01/29/06 00:34:53
To: rswenson@optonline.net
Subject: PayPal Security Measures


https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/logo/paypal_logo.gif (http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_home)
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td background="http://images.paypal.com/images/bg_clk.gif" width="100%">http://images.paypal.com/images/pixel.gif</td></tr></tbody></table> PayPal Security Measures!
<tt>We are contacting you to remind you that: on 28 January 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account, one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address. </tt>
<tt> <table> <tbody> <tr bgcolor="#ccddee"> <td width="103"> IP Address
</td> <td width="205"> Time
</td> <td width="67"> Country
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <td width="103"> 80.53.1.130
</td> <td width="205"> January 27, 2006 15:05:08 PDT
</td> <td width="67"> Poland
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td width="103"> 80.53.255.174
</td> <td width="205"> January 27, 2005 15:07:58 PDT
</td> <td width="67"> Poland
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <td width="103"> 141.85.99.169
</td> <td width="205"> January 26, 2006 15:13:09 PDT
</td> <td width="67"> Romania
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td width="103"> 141.85.99.169
</td> <td width="205"> January 27, 2006 21:28:08 PDT
</td> <td width="67"> Romania
</td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <td width="103"> 195.61.146.130
</td> <td width="205"> January 26, 2006 21:33:43 PDT
</td> <td width="67"> Romania
</td></tr></tbody></table></tt> 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. To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you.
<tt>To securely confirm your PayPal information please go directly to https://www.paypal.com/ (http://i220-109-128-73.s02.a027.ap.plala.or.jp/%7Esatoshi/.aw/PayPal/cgi-bin/webscre.php/login_PayPal_Acounts/) log in to your PayPal account and perform the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible or click bellow:</tt>

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</td><td class="pp_sansserif" align="center"><tt>To continue your verification procedure click here (http://i220-109-128-73.s02.a027.ap.plala.or.jp/%7Esatoshi/.aw/PayPal/cgi-bin/webscre.php/login_PayPal_Acounts/)</tt></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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[Chuck Wintle]

Like all scams the point is to catch the unwary computer user. I usually delete any email that asks for information like account numbers etc.

[Steve Clardy]

I forward them all to spoof@paypal.com
Same with ebay spoof@ebay.com

[Jeff Sudmeier]

I get a kick out of these, I just can't imagine with all the press that people would do this and enter their info...

[Chuck Wintle]

I get a kick out of these, I just can't imagine with all the press that people would do this and enter their info...
Bomb? What bomb?

[Jim Becker]

CAUTION>>> THOSE LINKS DO NOT POINT TO PAYPAL, even though they display as the proper Paypal address. Do not click on them, even from this thread...

'Just hover your rodent's nose over any of them and look at the bottom of your browser window... ;) ...it appears to be an address in Japan, but could really be pointing anywhere...

[Dave Carey]

I received so many of these that after contacting Paypal and getting no response I cancelled my Paypal account. Scam messages stopped immediately causing me to believe that the scammers are feeding off of some Paypal database or traffic.