Type Of Scam Email From Paypal That Send By The Scammers
By Devilova
@Devilova (5392)
Indonesia
April 4, 2011 7:55am CST
I write this to let others know and to give alert to you my beloved Mylotters.
Dear PayPal User,
PayPal is constantly working to ensure your security by regulary screening accounts. We recently reviewed your account, and our system shows that you have not yet completed the verification stage of your PayPal account.
Click here and follow the steps.
This must be completed within 7 days otherwise your paypal account will be permanently suspended. Completing the steps will automatically restore your account access to normal.
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.
To receive email notifications in plain text instead of HTML, update your preferences.
Always check the sender email address, while this one was send from the bellow address
accounts@paypal-support.co.uk
BECAREFULL ALL OF YOU!!
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7 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
4 Apr 11
1) PayPal will ALWAYS address you by name. If the email is addressed to "PayPal User" or something similar, ignore it.
2) PayPal will NEVER send a link which will take you to your account or invite you to log in. If the links LOOKS genuine, hover your mouse over it and look at the status bar. This will tell you where the link REALLY would take you to. It is very likely a spoof log in page.
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@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
11 Apr 11
@zksharjit: Yes, if the http: in the internet address bar becomes https, then it indicates it is a secured and legitimate Paypal website. If not, then you have to be careful. They may be phishing you.
@ThePTCDiary (94)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Paypal uses an encrypted site to achieve security. If anything is wrong with your account, just go directly to the Paypal website by typing in the address on the URL bar. Paypal will give you instructions of the things you need to do to bring your account to good standing.
Also, Paypal do not threaten its customers by making a sense of urgency such as "This must be completed within 7 days otherwise your Paypal account will be permanently suspended."
Your account will never be permanently suspended within 24 hours or even within 7 days upon receiving an email from them. The only accounts that gets permanently suspended are the accounts that have multiple claims filed against them and those that requires multiple proofs of ownership due to "shaddy transactions". Paypal follows a due process and it takes weeks and even months before an account is considered for suspension.
Nothing really happens when you report or forward phishing emails to Paypal support. They will not be reliable if you fall for phishing emails so it is very important that we know how to spot a scam. Scammers are getting smarter and smarter so we really have to be careful.
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
20 Apr 11
Dear friend,
There was a time at least two mails I could receive noting that there is huge amount of money waiting for me with blha bhla... stories along with it. But until now no fake message have been received from pay pal. But other messages of fake winning of lotteries and jackpot is even it is coming.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
5 Apr 11
Hi Devi and Harjit,
thanks a lot about your helpful information.
i am so blind about spammers and how they do it. i only know when an email goes to my junk then i just throw it away.
but this one seem so legit and if it goes to my junk folder i guess i will open it.
thanks for the warns.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
5 Apr 11
That really sounds like a scam, make people believe that you have verify your account once again by login with your username and password. That is really sucks too. I think you should call paypal customer service to verify whether that email is legit or no.
@cashfreebase (285)
• China
21 Apr 11
These emails are from the phishing scam. lots of people would recieve them that ask you enter your PP or LR account. so just ingore their links and proetect your privacy info.