Paypal alert! Danger!!!

[apex1]

Hello mates,

today I received the following e-mail:


Dear PayPal customer,

We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized transaction on your account.

Protecting your account is our primary concern. As a preventive measure we have temporary limited your access to sensitive information.

Paypal features.To ensure that your account is not compromised, simply hit "Resolution Center" to confirm your identity as member of Paypal.

Please confirm your account information by clicking here Resolution Center and complete the "Steps to Remove Limitations.

Login to your Paypal with your Paypal username and password. Confirm your identity as a card memeber of Paypal.

*Please do not reply to this message*. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

Sincerely,PayPal Customer Service


Be aware! This is not from PayPal! Thats a Phishing attack! DO NOT FOLLOW THAT LINK! REPORT MESSAGE AS SPAM!!!

Regards
Richard

[masalai]

apex1, I get that kind of rubbish quite regularly, The police don't want to know... They are getting quite good at presenting themselves as the bank or whatever - Just know who you have credit with and establish a system for them to send advice on such issues, then delete all others or post them saying something like "pity I cannot get access to their bank accounts - should have quite a bit from previous suckers/victims."....

Sadly an all too frequent hazard in this world...

[daiquiri]

As a general rule banks and/or other payment agencies never use e-mail messages with links for this kind of communications.

If it was the message from you bank or from a real Pay-Pal, it would read something like: "please visit the PayPal site and login", with no links included.
It's up to you to digit the correct address in your browser and then to login at the site you know.

So when you receive a message containing a link, it is 99% a phishing attack aimed at stealing your password.

[mark775]

thanks, Richard!

[Fanie]

In most cases they know who it is, but just do nothing about it.

[kroberts]

Paypal phishing is a pain, but one category of this is wildly entertaining.

I have a mail filter that looks for any connection at all with Nigeria. Those go into a special folder. I read all of them, look for sentences without grammar errors, and try to lump them together by author by "writing style."

More fun than a crossword puzzle.

[wardd]

also checking the remove me from this list box and replying only lets them know yours is a real email addy, so you go to the top of the list as a live one

[apex1]

Mas
I meant report to your mail system! The police is only good for the textile industry! They have so many different uniforms.

[kroberts]

The only reports I have ever filed were to the company being scammed. Many sites have phishing report pages, where you paste in the email header and content. If anyone actually cares, it is the company being scammed.