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Paypal Fraud email
robindunne1
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Just received an email purporting to be from Paypal which seemed very authentic. It tells me that they have noticed some unusual activity in my account and that I needed to go through their link and input my username and password to clear a block that will be put on my account tomorrow.
Was a little concerned about giving out my details as when I go into Paypal the normal way I can't see anything on my account giving the warning - and their isn't any usual activity anyway. I've just called and had a chat with a Paypal rep and she told me that they never send emails out with links on them and to delete it.
Just thougt it may eb worth letting people know about it.
Was a little concerned about giving out my details as when I go into Paypal the normal way I can't see anything on my account giving the warning - and their isn't any usual activity anyway. I've just called and had a chat with a Paypal rep and she told me that they never send emails out with links on them and to delete it.
Just thougt it may eb worth letting people know about it.
Giving up is easy...... just keep on trying!
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As super furry suggests this is not new and it's not clever.
Send it into spoof@paypal.co.uk and delete it.
I get several day, I even had one from Commerc (sic) bank this morning (spelt wrongly!)
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