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carls200tdi:
Definitely a scam just had the same email forwarded it to spoof@paypal.com and they confirmed it was a phishing email and told me to ignore/delete it

Andy41:
scams will be http only where as genuine emails from these people will have https the `s ` means secure.

thermidorthelobster:
Not necessarily;  there's no reason scammers wouldn't be using https as well.  Don't assume it's safe if it's a secure connection.  It just means nobody can eavesdrop, not that the correct company is at the other end of the connection.

datalas:

--- Quote from: BadgersRover on November 18, 2008, 00:47:05 ---The other way to tell is to right click on the link and look at the link properties, you will often find that it doesnt point to paypal!

A bit like this http://www.paypal.co.uk

You can see the clickable bit says its going to paypal, but if you click the link it will in fact take you to ebay!

Very simple to do, but still very effective, alot of people do fall for it.

--- End quote ---

Speaking from the perspective of someone err... "in the position to know"

NEVER Follow a link to anything official in an email,  especially if you weren't expecting it.  Don't even bother checking to see if the URL looks legitimate, just don't click on it.

You can make links look legitimate even if they aren't,  firstly some mail browsers will display something which can be forged, alternatively due to international character sets (those funny letters that foreign fellas use) it's possible to have paypal.com and paypal.com being different addresses (the second one having an invisible accent over the second a meaning it's pronounced pay-p-haal.com, but you can't see that)  If you must then type the address in manually, and stick to the address you were expecting.  If it's really urgent, and legitimate then they will have something on your account page, or homepage to tell you about it.  So log in as you would if you'd never got the email.

NEVER Follow an email from your bank, paypal or indeed anyone anyway.  Most organisations have declared they will not send information via email, they sure as hell won't ask you to confirm it.  If it's that urgent, they're not going to try and get hold of you using email, the bank has your phone number and would use that instead.

NEVER Trust a computer that isn't yours,  if you haven't got a good idea of what was installed on it, you're stuffed.  Even SSL won't help you out (yes, you can eavesdrop on https conversations, it's tricky, but not impossible)

lee celtic:
SCAM  [-X

Or you could send them every thing they want but with all the numbers and stuff  changed on photoshop  :twisted:

then sit back and think of all the time they are waisting trying to rip you off with the wrong info  :lol: :lol: :lol:

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