Important : Security Alert On Your Paypal Account !!!

Jerlene · 11-18-2007, 09:31 PM

Here is yet another email I got from someone claiming to be PayPal. I'm going to point out the obvious reasons this is fake.

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Blue - PayPal spells their name "PayPal", not "Paypal".
Green - They don't send these types of emails out with the email address "@email.paypal.com"
Red - PayPal and emails from PayPal are secure. All of the addresses should start with "https"(some starts with "http"). ALL emails should be under the PayPal domain, nowhere else.

Jerlene · 11-18-2007, 09:32 PM

Oh forgot. The title of this thread was the title of the email.
PayPal is a business, a professional one.
They would not use so many exclamation points, ever.

Jerlene · 11-18-2007, 09:42 PM

Another way to spot a fake is to look at the copyright at the bottom of the email. It's usually just:

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but PayPal will put their copyright and business address, like this:

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Copyright © 1999-2007 PayPal. All rights reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131

bajuhitam · 02-05-2008, 10:47 PM

Thanks for sharing with us. I know many people take advantages about this issue. Even many people buy new domain just because want to steal others people account. I hope they will never did that. If i know my friends do that too me. I know what i want to do with him.

danish · 02-05-2008, 11:51 PM

We should avoid this phising. I never got the email like this for paypal but got with my egold account. Someone has hack my account and get all the amount there.

DayDreamer · 02-24-2008, 10:02 AM

i too received a similar mail but i recognized it too and just sent back a mail to phisher saying that i was not fool and sick like him!!
some phishers make silly mistakes that anyone can easily recognize. lol.

willyoumind · 07-25-2008, 03:48 AM

Sometimes, the Paypal phising emails do make me pissed off...

Each day, I will at least find a paypal phising email at my spam/bulk mail, and the ridiculous thing is some of them even wrote in the Spanish, French or even Chinese languages...lol