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Old 01-28-2003, 06:32 PM
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Default Warning to all Paypal users.

This is a copy/paste from a site i visit:

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WARNING to Pay-Pal users!!!
This is way Off Topic, but important, so I posted it here. Feel free to move it if you want to.

I received a very suspicious e-mail yesterday that supposedly came from PayPal Security Center . The subject is Verify PayPal, please Verify PayPal, please. The body of the e-mail says:


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This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

Please confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:
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It then procedes to ask for your e-mail/password, a bank account number, and/or a credit card number. It looks very professional and I almost didn't think about it being a scam. All of the links go to pay-pal sites as well.

I e-mailed Pay-Pal and they verified it did NOT come from them, and are trying to figure out who's sending these. Again, it is a SCAM and they are stealing credit card / bank account numbers!

Be careful out there guys, these things are getting more and more common!
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Old 01-28-2003, 07:01 PM
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Always remember to check for https://www.paypal.com in the URL, only trick you need to know
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Old 01-28-2003, 07:34 PM
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All of the links go to pay-pal sites as well.
lol

glad I don't use it because I always fall for those things...although with a subject header that say please 2 times...I'm not so sure I would even open it..
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Old 01-28-2003, 07:41 PM
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Thanks AL
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Old 01-28-2003, 07:54 PM
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thanks...im sure many people will get this email, and will actually do it (my mom would...lol....if...she nkew what paypal was
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Old 01-28-2003, 08:52 PM
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Thanks for that AL.
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Old 01-29-2003, 12:40 PM
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Thanks.
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Old 01-29-2003, 06:49 PM
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thanks for the heads up
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Old 02-01-2003, 03:51 AM
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thanks, im going to spread the word to my forum members as well, i know a lot of them use paypal.
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Old 02-01-2003, 12:24 PM
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I'm a paypal user, so I appreciate the heads up. Thanks
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