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the loon:
service@paypal.com

This address is sending out emails asking for paypal log in confirmation etc

use the link on the mail and takes you to
<link removed.... just in case it is nasty ;-)>
Yeah like thats a paypal address

will these people never learn?

 :roll:  ](*,)  :roll:

gecko:
there is one from ebay that is the same i have to emails one for this and friends and one for ebay and so on well the one for here has emails from paypal and ebay and ive never yesed that email address on there coners i think

the loon:
reported to paypal and they sent box standard reply but as we thought its not one of theres

MattW:
Many are more clever than this - never follow links from emails and if you do always look at the address of the website it takes you to. If it is legit it will be on a https:// address instead of http://. https:// is a secure server address.

The clever one I had recently took me to paypal like site but the address was  " paypal-login.secure.net " the sneaky "little people". Obviously it should be www.paypal.com

I've now had about 30 fraud emails from people claiming to be banks, Ebay, Paypal or NOChex - how do they know which banks I use?

Matt

muddyweb:
They don't know which banks you use... it's the 'shotgun' aproach to emailing...

We get (literally) thousands of these a day through our mail servers...   they just pick all the banks and all the cards and send them to all the people....  law of averages says that at least some of the people they hit will bank with hsbc, or use a citicard....   thankfully most of them get blocked and dumped :-)

We also have a fine collection of eBay, Paypal and Amazon phishing emails full of nice links for you to follow.

As mentioned... never click a link in an email unless you are absolutely, 100% sure of it's source.,.

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