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Phishing for Your PayPal Information

I have gotten this exact E-Mail three (3) times in a week (so far). IT IS A FRAUD
I have contacted PayPal at their fraud prevention site and was informed IT IS NOT A VALID PAYPAL URL.

Copy of the E-Mail:

You have added laptopseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the”Help” link in the header of any page.
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PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in athttps://www. paypal. com/ Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typingin the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

If you get this or any similar E-Mail, please DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Contact PayPal, they Will Respond, probably the same day (they did for me).

If you do get something like this, send a copy to spoof@paypal.com They will look into it right away. And remember, NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION unless you are absolutely sure of the source of the request.


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  • This entry was posted in Attitude, Scams and Legitimate, Spam. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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    1. By Working at Home on the Internet on August 21, 2006 at 11:28 am

      [...] The other day I read on SympleByte about the new phishing filter on IE7 with some interest, but didn’t pay all that much attention (sorry DavidC). Then I remembered getting something in my E-mail back in April about my PayPal account that turned out to be a fraud.  I reported it to PayPal and even wrote a post about it.  That Scam E-mail was phishing for my account information. [...]


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