Is this Spam?

[Watercadet]

So I got two of these letters in my email. They look pretty legit but when I went to my Pay Pal account there was only my correct e-mail addy not this "funstuff12." Here is the letter:

From :  PayPal Inc. <[email protected]> Sent :  Tuesday, August 2, 2005 7:33 PM

To :  [email protected]

Subject :  Unauthorized Access: (Routing Code: P101-K001-Q-P090)

  |  |  | Inbox

You have added [email protected] as a new email address for your

PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with

your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:

  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Thank you for using PayPal!

The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be

answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the

"Help" link in the header of any page.

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                    PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD

  NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at

https://www.paypal.com/.Protect yourself against fraudulent websites

by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing

in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

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PayPal Email ID PP1507

 

[Don Ferrette]

Adam the link in that is a legitimate https secure paypal page. Sounds like someone may have guessed you Paypal password, I'd change your passwords for sure just to be safe. :blink:

 

[dave roach]

This is a Scam.

 

[Don Ferrette]

This is a Scam. Do'nt give out your info because paypal does'nt ask for this.Change your password.

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What Adam posted is from Paypal, the first link in the notice is to the secure sign in page & the i.p. is correct. Try it & you'll see it takes you to the correct https secure page. If you read what they sent him they tell you not to give out your passwords.

 

[piper_chuck]

Adam the link in that is a legitimate https secure paypal page. Sounds like someone may have guessed you Paypal password, I'd change your passwords for sure just to be safe.  :blink:

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The link is probably correct in his post HERE because the plain text editor did not pick up the underlying hotlink from the original email. When he posted it here, the IW software probably converted it into a hotlink. I've received enough of these emails to know that the link was most likely not legitimate. Here's an example from my trash folder:

Text: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Link: http;//www.paypal.com.authorized-user.info/...

I changed the : to ; to prevent IW from turning this into hotlink. This second link is not to a valid paypal site, but it's where you would go if you click on what arrives in the email.

My rule for all these emails, whether they appear to be from eBay, paypal, a bank, or credit card company, is to open a new browser window and either type in the correct link, or use a bookmark that I know is good. I do not click on links received in emails.

 

[MarkScott]

That is most likely spam. If you can, "view message source". It'll most likely have paypal in the site, but there will be other pointers in there also. Example would be what Piper listed. I've had earthlink messages sent to my non primary account stating I was overdue in payment. NOT.

As Piper stated, open another browser window, type in the real address you know will log you on. Then look at your profile there. Bet there's only the id(s) you defined.

Paypal does have a scam address you can send what you think is spam/scam. They will tell you if it is or not.

 

[Watercadet]

Thanks dudes, I do think it is a fake but did change my passwords to be safe. Those passwords are hard for me to remember

 

[Don Ferrette]

Adam the link in that is a legitimate https secure paypal page. Sounds like someone may have guessed you Paypal password, I'd change your passwords for sure just to be safe.  :blink:

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The link is probably correct in his post HERE because the plain text editor did not pick up the underlying hotlink from the original email. When he posted it here, the IW software probably converted it into a hotlink. I've received enough of these emails to know that the link was most likely not legitimate. Here's an example from my trash folder:

Text: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

Link: http;//www.paypal.com.authorized-user.info/...

I changed the : to ; to prevent IW from turning this into hotlink. This second link is not to a valid paypal site, but it's where you would go if you click on what arrives in the email.

My rule for all these emails, whether they appear to be from eBay, paypal, a bank, or credit card company, is to open a new browser window and either type in the correct link, or use a bookmark that I know is good. I do not click on links received in emails.

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Good point. I tried it off the link Adam posted twice & it worked fine. All it comes down to is paying attention to what the link actually says. It's not hard to look at it & see the difference.

 

[Bart Drieghe]

I wouldn't take it for real , like piper and Ob said , open a new brower and type the correct link in it .

Another way to be sure is to forward this mail to Paypal itself .

I've done it everytime sofar and sofar all off them were fakes .( just had another one from ebay last week , looked very real but forwarded it and i got a reply from ebay the day after , FAKE )

Cheers ,

B

 

[piper_chuck]

These crooks are getting better at creating URLs that look real. I get several a day. I've stopped opening them, I just hit delete based on the subject line.

 

[MarkScott]

Beware I would not discount all messages. A few years back, I got one of those messages that stated my Ebay password had changed. Checked with the then wife, she didn't change it. Tried to logon, dang nab it, it was changed. Sure enough, someone actually did change our ebay password and had bid on several items. :angry: A response to the auto email sent by Ebay when the password changed and within a few hours it was back to normal. They sent a notice to all that had bids placed with this hacker take over. Just a word from the wise...

 

[Ron Olson]

It wouldn't hurt to contact eBay also as they own PayPal to make sure that they get the info.

 

[piper_chuck]

Beware  I would not discount all messages.

Agreed. I do read the subject line. I'm also on eBay often enough that if my password changed I would notice pretty quickly.

 

[[email protected]]

It's sickening how hard they try to rob-n-cheat. Lazy grunts. Always go to the site directly never through these WARNING e-mails or you could get screwed big time!.

 

[norm j]

hey cadet and everyone else! that is a scam it's called phishing,if you ever get one DO NOT GO TO THE LINK THAT IS WITH THE E-MAIL they are trying to get your paypal password, if you want to check your paypal account type the paypal address in your browser then sign in,also if you want to report it here is the address to send it to, [email protected] just foward the suspected e-mail

to that address,then they will get back with you about it,pass the word around people and we will stay ahead of this stuff!

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