regarding someone attempting to login to my account from France

and they want me to click some link and log in

Quote :

"We recently noticed an attempt to log in to your PayPal account from France,a foreign IP address and we have reason to believe that your account was used by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. Therefore, if you are the rightful account holder, click on the link below to log into your account and follow the instructions. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporarily suspend your account. If you received this notice and you are not the authorized account holder, please be aware that it is in violation of PayPal policy to represent oneself as another PayPal user. Such action may also be in violation of local, national, and/or international law. PayPal is committed to assist law enforcement with any inquires related to attempts to misappropriate personal information with the intent to commit fraud or theft. Information will be provided at the request of law enforcement agencies to ensure that impersonators are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account. Sincerely, PayPal Account Review Department PayPal, an eBay Company"

obviously i havent done this shit as it seems weird as fuck

anybody getting these?

4/18/2006 9:10:31 PM

scam
http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/report/1261

4/18/2006 9:13:42 PM

thought so

4/18/2006 9:17:09 PM

I have gotten the same "scam" from amazon and Citi Business

4/18/2006 9:37:23 PM

dang jeff...

4/18/2006 9:38:21 PM

The "you leave us no choice" sentence at the end there is pretty comical

4/18/2006 9:41:42 PM

^^ what?

4/18/2006 9:56:28 PM

Just fill in the credit info and personal info with random crap, let them waste their time.

4/18/2006 10:01:52 PM

Sounds like an identity thief at work.

4/19/2006 12:14:13 AM

Paypal doesn't send emails like that, but that link seems to be legitimate.

4/19/2006 12:19:04 AM

I'm serious. You're asking for an empty bank account or maxed out credit card if you follow the directions.

4/19/2006 12:22:00 AM

haha i was just putting that to "try" and make you feel bad, just fuckin wit yuo my n

4/19/2006 12:27:10 AM

Quote :

"Paypal doesn't send emails like that, but that link seems to be legitimate."

the text was posted from his email, and the crazy code tagged it as a link so it showed up. the actual link in his email went to some other phishing site

4/19/2006 12:39:57 AM

^is that why companies ask you if you want to receive html in your email?

man if so i'm gonna start saying no

4/19/2006 12:43:08 AM

^exactly

4/19/2006 12:44:18 AM

if you actually go to paypal.com you can report the scammers (or you can call them). They have been having these problems for awhile and will get closer to stopping it if people let them know about it and send the link that has been sent to you.
or so they told me.

4/19/2006 9:33:24 AM

Forward the email to spoof@paypal.com so that paypal can look int othe matter. It's just an attempt for someone to troll for your credit card # and personal information. The same will work with ebay, too. (spoof@ebay.com) Note that you will receive a reply from Ebay and PayPal if you do that, though (just so that you don't think that's a phishing attempt, too).

This is one thing that I really like about Thunderbird. Hold your mouse over a link and it shows you where the link actually goes to, and not where the link looks like it goes to.

4/19/2006 9:40:21 AM

if your registered user name is not in it then it doesn't originate from eBay or PayPal

4/19/2006 12:03:37 PM

are you sure these emails aren't from PaypaI? as in Paypai. I've gotten a couple from them with the same messages. Totally a scam obv.

[Edited on April 19, 2006 at 1:04 PM. Reason : I don't even have a Papyal account, heh]

4/19/2006 1:03:11 PM

i just filled in information full of racial slurs

4/19/2006 1:31:29 PM