Important : Security Alert On Your Paypal Account !!!

Jerlene · 11-18-2007

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

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

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

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

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

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.

11-18-2007	#1 (permalink)
Jerlene Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,175 Rep Power: 3	Important : Security Alert On Your Paypal Account !!! 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. __________________ 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7

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Jerlene Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,175 Rep Power: 3	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. __________________ 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7

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bajuhitam Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	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. __________________ See my travel at Kinabalu

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danish Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	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.

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DayDreamer Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	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.

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