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Paypal renew - is this a scam?

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    The site (pcaccessory.co.uk) appears to be hosted by hostzone.co.uk, so I have sent a complaint to their support email address (support@hostzone.co.uk) asking them to remove the offending page.
  • Yes it's definitely a scam, I have had a spate of them recently in my mailbox!
    Wins: Feb - Sam and Amanda DVD, Nanny Series, £50 Mother Day Goodies box
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    spammers getting their dotcom,s and dotcouk,s mixed up.

    also using american language such as EXPIRATION.
    uk never/very rarely uses such a phrase. EXPIRY is more likely.
    Get some gorm.
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Never respond to any Email asking for login details.
  • A google search of "pcaccessory.co.uk" finds other phishing scams trying to steal details for banks too.

    There's another forged page here - this time for the abbey national:[SIZE=-1] http://pcaccessory.co.uk/~andrew/abbey.co.uk.htm[/SIZE]

    In fact here's the folder listing for loads of scams.. you get redirected to this server after going to the pcaccessory.co.uk pages:
    http://58.143.141.251/
    Several other banks mentioned there.

    I've reported the lot to hostzone mentioned above.
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Source: whois.apnic.net

    58.143.141.251
    Host reachable, 344 ms. average

    58.140.0.0 - 58.143.255.255

    C&M Communication Co.,Ltd.
    Korea, Republic of

    NOC ADMIN
    Samseong-dong Gangnam-gu SEOUL
    Jeil B/D 4,6,7F
    phone: +82-70-7410-4742
    [EMAIL="noc@cnm.co.kr"]noc@cnm.co.kr[/EMAIL]

    NOC Jeon
    Samseong-dong Gangnam-gu SEOUL
    Jeil B/D 4,6,7F
    phone: +82-70-7410-4742
    [EMAIL="noc@cnm.co.kr"]noc@cnm.co.kr[/EMAIL]

    CNM-KR
    Updated: [EMAIL="hostmaster@nic.or.kr"]hostmaster@nic.or.kr[/EMAIL]
    Source: whois.apnic.net
  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,439 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Agreed, it's a scam, checked, and my communications use all lower case, i.e service@paypal
    Move along, nothing to see.
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