Pay Pal - what is this all about?

[GR7]

I keep receiving emails like this from Pay Pal and wonder if I should just ignore them. Fake or not?

Security Center Advisory!
We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to belive that your account was hijacked by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you.

If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the link below in 24 hours after you receive this mail and then complete all steps from the following page as we try to verify your identity.

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If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend or deleted your account.

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[Storm_Force]

FAKE FAKE FAKE!!!!

This is what the link goes to http://www.hairmagic.nl/hth/cgi-bin/webscr/cmd=_login/paypal-security/index.htm


Not exactly a paypal link is it, I just login via https://www.paypal.com/uk that way you know where you are.

Just loaded the page with IE7 it went nuts and blocked me from viewing it.

 

[my_cougar49]

ignore it. I get it as well and I can tell you as an IT Manager for a major company that we would not ask anyone to confirm any passwords or details etc. Go onto paypal manually not through the link and it wont ask you for shite. They are fishing for your details.

Simple rule of thumb - no major company will ask you to confirm any details

 

[Evil Ally]

Fake, probably from nigeria. You'll notice the poor english and when you hover on the link it points to aol somewhere. I get tons of them. If in doubt you can forward it to spoof@paypal.com and they will tell if it's fake or not.

 

[GR7]

THANKS GUYS!!!

This sort of thing should be stopped as unsuspecting people might get robbed of their credit card details!!

 

[my_cougar49]

THANKS GUYS!!!

This sort of thing should be stopped as unsuspecting people might get robbed of their credit card details!!

Unfortunately youll never stop it. Where money is involved the scammers are always on the lookout for new people to conn.

 

[lee_cup]

evil people out there! if they want money they should bloody well work for it like the rest of us!!!!

 

[stoddie]

i got exactly the same one mate...

i reported it to paypal and they said they were aware of what was going on...

 

[Guy]

a lad at college put his phone on ebay, someone won it, then he got a paypal style email with paypal logos etc saying they have the funds from blahblah and that they will be transferred to my mates account once he has received proof of postage.

so this lad goes off to post office, sends this phone to nigeria.

obviously heard nothing since and hes know an unregistered user of ebay etc.. with no comeback

 

[DaveLiquid182]

Fool, never deal with ebayers from nigeria especially. As it is 110% scam.

 

[Timmay]

absolute scam - b******s who try these should be shot!