Today receive an scam email with subject “Warning! Your PayPal account has been limited”
There is a side bar message that built up your trust in the email:
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Protect Your Account Info
Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites.
To safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account, open a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the PayPal login page (http://paypal.com/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal site.
For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review our Security Tips at https://www.paypal.com/us/securitytips
Protect Your Password
You should never give your PayPal password to anyone.
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Bellow is the email message:
PayPal
The above is a link that point to Paypal, clever trick, as further down, is another link that is faked”
Information Regarding Your account:
Dear PayPal Member:
Attention! Your PayPal account has been limited!
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system.We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:
Our system detected unusual charges to a credit card linked to your PayPal account.
Reference Number: PP-768-312-588
This is the Last reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible. Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access.
Once you log in, you will be provided with steps to restore your account access. We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.
Click here to activate your account
The above link is not pointing to Paypal, but to http://www.exacteducation.eu/PayPal=Worning/
I suppose the word Worning is spelled wrongly.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise for any inconvenience..
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
Copyright 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved. PayPal Ltd. PayPal FSA Register Number: 226055.
PayPal Email ID PP6344
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I’ve received this exact e-mail almost everyday in the GMail junk mail folders for a few months now. It’s sorta surprising that PayPal as well as all the legitimate email services can’t figure a way to blacklist mails such as these.
It’s amazing how often people get scammed with PayPal…
Whether it’s PayPal’s fault, or people just don’t think before they give all their info to a complete stranger, there is still a better solution.
I really don’t understand why not all of us just switch to PayPal alternative? Amongst others – Paysafecard is a great solution. I use it for months now. There are no fees for anything you buy, you get it for cash in your local store, you can’t get your account hacked as there is NO account, just the pin code with the money value and there is no need to give away any personal or bank info when you’re, for example, buying credits for your Skype account.
I think there is no better payment option than this one, seriously.
PSC is in spreading further into the online network each month and I believe that very soon others will see it’s greatest value. NO FEES. I dunno how those people manage to print all those Paysafecards when all I have to pay is those 5 Euros that I’ll spend somewhere else on the http://www...
PayPal is threatened by new and BETTER payment options and they know it. They try to hold on with new phone payment options and similar, but that will also get hacked even faster than with computer…
How long?
when I click on the link below it links to some site with arabic characters. Seems like IT IS really spam or fishing or ext, because usually I get emails from @paypal.com and not from paypal.co.uk