paypal email scam

[RobCur]

I never thought i get something like this! but it finally got around to me, just unbelivable!
It says from paypal security center, return email is support@verifypaypal.com but is cleverly disguised as
to say from support@paypal.com. This is a very suspicious email and you should be as you know paypal will never ask you for your username/password etc...
Just wanted to inform some people that are still unaware of this scam going on.
Below is what it should look like.

Dear PayPal Customer


This e-mail is the notification of recent innovations taken by PayPal to detect inactive customers.

The inactive customers are subject to restriction and removal in the next 3 months.

Please confirm your email address by logging in to your PayPal account using the form below:

Email Address:
Password:


Bank Account


Enter Bank Account #:


OR Credit Card


Enter Credit Card #:


This notification expires January 31, 2003


Thanks for using PayPal!


This PayPal notification was sent to your mailbox. Your PayPal account is set up to receive the PayPal Periodical newsletter and product updates when you create your account. To modify your notification preferences and unsubscribe, go to https://www.paypal.com/PREFS-NOTI and log in to your account. Changes to your preferences may take several days to be reflected in our mailings. Replies to this email will not be processed.

If you previously asked to be excluded from Providian product offerings and solicitations, they apologize for this e-mail. Every effort was made to ensure that you were excluded from this e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mail from Providian, go to http://removeme.providian.com/.

Copyright© 2002 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

 

[SilverThief]

I got the same one.
Bastards

 

[RobCur]

That's clever but it won't fool everyone, I was like WTF? is this a scam? upon verifying, it is! I hope whoever that is doing this, would be put behind bar asap.

 

[fluxquantum]

thanks for the heads up on that.

 

[compudog]

Don't send your account info to Paypal, send it to me instead!


It is a good tip, and everyone should be very wary of sending information to anyone over the 'net. There are a lot of clever peeps out there that are scamming their way across the Internet.