WARNING Watch out for your PAYPAL account

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:14 pm

Just got a email about :
Notification of PayPal Limited Account Access from service at paypal.com...

We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your PayPal account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the PayPal network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive PayPal account features.
Click below in order to regain access to your account:

Luckly i didnt click this link and send this email to PAYPAL security.
And PAYPAL just confirmed:

THIS was NOT a email send by PAYPAL !!!!!! Just very good made fake, same style of PAYPAL emails, email ID,...

... to get access to my account.

So, everybody using PAYPAL watch out, where to click !!

Traveller

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:59 pm

Thanks Trav. This is happening more and more often with both PayPal and eBay. It's good that we keep each other informed when we find one.

Melifaxis · Post by **Melifaxis** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:57 pm

I got that one too...

pfooti · Post by **pfooti** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:38 pm

And you know what the best thing about it is? The link they show isn't the place you go. Instead, the text of the email is actually an image, which is hyperlinked to another website that masquerades as PayPal.com

I thought it was very clever the first time I got one, but by the twentieth, it is just another PITA.