JoshHd6
10+ year member
AKA master467
EVERYONE that has paypal. If you get a e-mail that says something like this -
January 2007
Attention PayPal Online Client:
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
Please login into your PayPal Online account and complete verification process
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.
It has the logos and everything in the e-mail. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK AND SINE IN!!
It is a spoof site!
This is the link to the bad site. DO NOT LOG INTO IT.
http://219.84.101.126/login/index.htm
You can see that it starts with a ip address, it IS NOT paypal.
I already notified them of this, but i didnt catch onto it untill it asked me to re-enter my credit card #.
January 2007
Attention PayPal Online Client:
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your PayPal account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter.
If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your PayPal account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
Please login into your PayPal Online account and complete verification process
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.
It has the logos and everything in the e-mail. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK AND SINE IN!!
It is a spoof site!
This is the link to the bad site. DO NOT LOG INTO IT.
http://219.84.101.126/login/index.htm
You can see that it starts with a ip address, it IS NOT paypal.
I already notified them of this, but i didnt catch onto it untill it asked me to re-enter my credit card #.
