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Some truly bastards have send me this:

Dear valued PayPal®:
It has come to our attention PayPal® account information needs to be
updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes
out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into
any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before May 13, 2005.

Once you have updated your account records, PayPal® session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPal® records click on the following link:


http://www.paypal.comblablablablabla213

( I have changed the link, so people can't get there and be harmed)


Thank You. PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

Thank you
Accounts Managent

As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.

Copyright 2005 PayPal Inc. All Rights Reserved.

I am not a PayPal user, so I inmediately knew this mail is a fake, but what if you are into PayPal and you believe it? CAREFUL people, as you may be fall into a terrible fraudulent group of people!



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Nestor on 2005-05-12 13:41 ]</font>

yeah, i've had a few of these phishing expeditions come my way as well lately. don't respond to any email asking you to verify your info that may show up unnanounced in your mailbox like this. vets know this, so newbies beware!

I got similar thing from ebay.de (or co.uk) asking me to update my acount data with my credit card number

Scarry

Your warning is very important. I will add to it. If the company still have your email-address, then they also have all the other data. Or to say it in other words: If a company can get in touch with you for this reason, then they do not need to do so. Therefor they would not do it. Therefor, if they do it anyway, they are very most likely not who they pretend to be. Phishing stinks.

If you get such emails, never click the link they give (it's often redirected to some IP adress) but type in the root of the account (www.ebay.com, http://www.paypal.com) manually in your browser and log in yourself.

If you read the first topic in announcements, you'll read why John Cooper did away with Paypal too.

Rule # 1:

Never open an email in html form. Never! Use "view as text only" in Outlook Express, in Outlook 2000 or greater, use scripts.

If you're patient, use Telnet in Windows (a lot of typing though):

http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/pop.html
http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html

Another usefull piece of information: to filter spam messages, check the email header and see if your ISP is using SpamAssassin. If yes, SpamAssassin will embed additional lines in the header of the email on which you can que in using your email's rule wizard. For example I received this header:

X-Spam-Score: 3.7 (+++)
X-Spam-Report: 3.7/6.0
---- Start SpamAssassin results
* 1.2 HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (DHCP)
* 0.0 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name
* 4.4 HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr 1)
* -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
* [score: 0.0000]
---- End SpamAssassin results
X-Spam-Level: *

I have a rule that deletes the email if the Spam Level is at least one star. Of course, check your emails header and see if your ISP is using SpamAssassin.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: BingoTheClowno on 2005-05-11 12:32 ]</font>