just received a paypal scam, most of the time people would post this in hot deals but knowing some of anandtechers are no life complainers, i decided to post this in here instead, because it's fun to see how idiotic some people can be with trying to scam paypal users off
"PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of
buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs
some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud
teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your
account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your
account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your
account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. This
is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not
compromised.
We encourage you to log in and restore full access using the link below:
https://www.paypal.com/security/
Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of
time, it may result in further limitations on the use of your account or
may result in eventual account closure.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that
this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We
apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
PayPal Email ID PP724"
the first suspicious thing i noticed was that this email was "forwarded" to a bunch of hotmail users, usually a notification from Paypal would just be to a single user and it wouldnt show who it was sent to.
and i looked at the link and it "looked" legit, until i hovered my mouse over the link and it showed a different url, in thise case it showed: www.AccountLogin.v2.net
i feel like i want to find out who it is registered to and spam the hell out of them :]
it's been a while since i got an email scam like this. btw, are these email scams usually just randomly sent out to people or is it actually from users that knows of your paypal email ?
"PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of
buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs
some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud
teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.
Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your
account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your
account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your
account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. This
is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not
compromised.
We encourage you to log in and restore full access using the link below:
https://www.paypal.com/security/
Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of
time, it may result in further limitations on the use of your account or
may result in eventual account closure.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that
this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We
apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
PayPal Email ID PP724"
the first suspicious thing i noticed was that this email was "forwarded" to a bunch of hotmail users, usually a notification from Paypal would just be to a single user and it wouldnt show who it was sent to.
and i looked at the link and it "looked" legit, until i hovered my mouse over the link and it showed a different url, in thise case it showed: www.AccountLogin.v2.net
i feel like i want to find out who it is registered to and spam the hell out of them :]
it's been a while since i got an email scam like this. btw, are these email scams usually just randomly sent out to people or is it actually from users that knows of your paypal email ?
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