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admin(Mark) wrote: This scam has been going on for a while now. I even had one of their emails before. The scam is that you get an email saying something about security with your account and that you should visit a link where you need to enter personal details.[ THIS SHOULD ALREADY BE A RED FLAG TO YOU ]. Paypal will NEVER send you an email like that. Always visit the paypal site form either your bookmark or http://www.paypal.com. In other words make sure you are the one typing the web address. Direct link to the scam http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/16/paypal_security_flaw_allows_identity_theft.html You need to educate yourself about the dos and don'ts. First: -NEVER visit a link to any payment site from your email unless you are expecting that site to send you a link. -NEVER purchase from a website without an active forum. Also check their forums if there is one for misssing errors about the product. NO product is perfect so if there are missing error posts then there are also missing post from customers who are not happy with the product. -NEVER purchase from a website that stores your credit card numbers. There is never a need for that information to be stored. There are more but just please think before doing any business online. Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:04 pm  X-perienced  Posts: 144 Next Group: 6 posts
strik9 wrote: Ive had this a number of times and have gave the EMail and the link to the paypal folks. They have written back that numerous folks have reported the same site. So if you do see or recieve one of these Emails please contact paypal as it does help. Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:10 pm  Moderator  Posts: 349 Staff Next Group: 151 posts
Eric wrote: I get those a lot too. I like to see where they're actually coming from because if you notice the text link always refers to looking like a "real" paypal address, but when you actually go to the site, it's not even a real paypal.com address. It's some like www.paypal.blah.com or something else with paypal in the address. But I never fill out anything from that site, instead I used to report it to paypal. Gave up on that even. Took too much time out of my busy internet schedule. 
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:09 pm
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