WARNING ebay and paypal spoof emails

Irony

I just got this one. I've deleted the link.




Secure Your PayPal Account!
Dear Customer,
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While performing the scheduled monthly billing address check our system found incompatible information which seams to be no longer the same with your current credit card information that we have on file. If you changed your billing information or if you moved from you previous address please follow up the link bellow and update your billing information. If you didn't change any of this information you still need to follow up the previous link and update your existing billing information because it means that our database regular scheduled update wasn't made correctly. We apologies for any inconvinience this may caused you and we strongly advise you to update your information you have on file with us.
To restore your account access please visit the link below:



We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and apreciate your assistance in helping us maintaing the integrity of the entire network.

Sincerely,
Accounts Department.
The PayPal® Corp. Copyright © 1999-2012 PayPal. All rights reserved.


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j.e.j.

I just got what I think is a scam email from PayPal. It starts:

Hello PayPal Customer,
You sent a payment of 18.00 GBP to Skype (billing@skype.com)
It may take a few moments for this transaction to appear in your account.

..and it then goes on to say:
If you haven't authorized this charge, press cancel payment and get a full refund.

I'm almost certain this is a scam and not from PayPal, as it starts with the generic greeting dear PayPal customer. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has received anything similar.

soolin

j.e.j. wrote: »

I just got what I think is a scam email from PayPal. It starts:

Hello PayPal Customer,
You sent a payment of 18.00 GBP to Skype (billing@skype.com)
It may take a few moments for this transaction to appear in your account.

..and it then goes on to say:
If you haven't authorized this charge, press cancel payment and get a full refund.



I'm almost certain this is a scam and not from PayPal, as it starts with the generic greeting dear PayPal customer. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has received anything similar.

It is an obvious and common scam, just delete and ignore

terra_ferma

I've just received the most dangerous paypal phishing scam I've never come across. It used my name and surname, but also the email address I use EXCLUSIVELY for paypal. It was sent from service at paypall. com (2 Ls).

Just a warning to people that seeing genuine name/surname/business name and email address doesn't mean the email is safe.

Mia1987

I've received many of these Spoof emails, but it seems they come in seasons.

eurozulu

They are easy to spot just look at senders address it's always the giveaway I found with paypal for example it will read paypol or it may say paypal.e.com
plus i think they would not contact you just via email with account issues same with ebay and banks

nickyhutch

Hello

I've just had this - is it a dodgy one?

Many thanks.

Dear PayPal user,

We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card payment attempt
associated with this account. To protect you against any further unauthorised
payment attempts, we've limited access to your PayPal account. Please take
a minute to review the details below and what steps you need to take to
remove the limits.

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Details of disputed transaction

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Case ID Number: PP-001-546-712-069

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What to do next

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Please download the form attached to this email and open it in a web browser.
Once opened, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.
We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure your account safety.

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Due dates

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Please get back to us as soon as possible.

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Other details

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There are no other details for this transaction at this time.


Yours sincerely,
PayPal

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Please do not reply to this email because we are not monitoring this inbox.
To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click "Contact Us" at
the bottom of any page.

Copyright © 2012 PayPal, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Registered office: 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxemburg
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PayPal Email ID PP1569

tiphany30

I have received the same spoof email at least 10 times in the past 6 months, from service@paypal.co.uk . I was so astounded that a spam email could come from such a legit sounding email address, and was very nearly taken in by it. It's titled Notifications of User Agreement Update. If it wasn't for the poor English I would definitely have clicked through the link. Beware!

I have reported this to the spoof email every time but it hasn't made any difference personally. I've just had to add it to my junk email list.

Copy of email text below:


Please Note, Your Online PayPal Account have one new security message.

Due to recent changes we have made for safety and integrity.

This issue must be resolved now, otherwise your account will be suspension.

To update your account please follow the link below: Login to Managing your account

This verification will allow us to activate new features for your account on our system.

Yours Sincerely,
PayPal .

dollymay

iieee wrote: »

I got this one today and thought it was worth posting as I did actually think that my account had been hacked until I logged into paypal and saw that the transaction wasn't there. Then I looked back at the email and read it carefully and saw that it wasn't genuine.



Sorry the formatting hasn't come up properly but it looked just like a normal paypal receipt except for the comment about it not showing up in my transactions, and there is a grey button at the bottom saying 'cancel transaction'.

thanks i got the same but cant find if they taken the money from anywere

dollymay

hi just had the same so they still at it you got to have your witts about when opening emails