On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 13:17, Andrew Plato wrote: > This looks like a scam, did anybody else get this? > > I got this email last week. If you look at the URL, it goes to a different IP address (212.159.188.6). I did a reverse lookup on the name and traced it back to some dialup account in England. > > I don't know - looks like a scam to me. If you click the link you go to an apparently legitimite looking PayPal site. But that could have been easily duplicated. I didn't investigate any further than that. I have to be on my way to a customer meeting. Was there an HTML attachment that didn't get forwarded? The message below only shows www.paypal.com. > > -----Original Message----- > From: service@private [mailto:service@private] > Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 1:29 PM > To: Andrew Plato > Subject: PayPal Verification > > > Dear PayPal Member, > Please log into your PayPal account using the following link to confirm you are still an active PayPal user asap. > We are now requesting the password to the e-mail address you signed up to PayPal with. This is so our systems can confirm the confirmation e- mails off PayPal stay in your account because there has been a rise in the amount of fraudsters getting access to users e-mail addresses and deleting the Paypal confirmations. > This is to protect you and ourselves. > PayPal will use this information for fraud protection only. > This is our new yearly checkup process to screen any inactive accounts. > https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login- run - run > Thankyou for your co-operation. > Regards > PayPal Support Wil -- Wil Cooley wcooley@private Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * * QCSNet http://www.qcsn.com * * * * T1, Frame Relay, DSL, Dial-up, and Web Hosting * * * *
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