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Suspicious PayPal E-Mail!! Fraud!
I just received the following e-mail from somebody claiming to be from PayPal. I looked it up and I am quite certain it is fraud. Please be careful:
______________________________________________________________________________
Dear PayPal customers,
We would like to inform You about our new services which are available at http://paypal-login.com.
Use your paypal account to log in and explore the great opportunities that we are giving You.
Don't underestimate the chance to update your paypal account, checkout the new statistics that are
available or activate a few more online services.
From now on You can use your paypal online more effectively than before, just login into your account
and activate the services.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address
cannot be answered. For assistance, login to your PayPal
account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
Thank you for using PayPal!
Best regards,
The PayPal Team
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I looked up the domain name and paypal-login.com is owned by an individual, not PayPal!! I also examined how this login operates carefully. What it does is capturing your e-mail and password, and then probably store them somewhere, and then log you into the real PayPal site, which means you would never know that your ID and password have been stolen. (Trying not to get too technical here. That's the general idea.)
Please do not log onto your account using this e-mail.
also if a link takes you to http://www.paypal-login.com its fraud never login to a site that does not have https next to it because it means its not secured.
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This was also posted in several forums by our member, Paypaldamon, but it is worth sticking to the top of the forum for a few days as a reminder.
AnandTech Moderator
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Suspicious PayPal E-Mail!! Fraud!
I just received the following e-mail from somebody claiming to be from PayPal. I looked it up and I am quite certain it is fraud. Please be careful:
______________________________________________________________________________
Dear PayPal customers,
We would like to inform You about our new services which are available at http://paypal-login.com.
Use your paypal account to log in and explore the great opportunities that we are giving You.
Don't underestimate the chance to update your paypal account, checkout the new statistics that are
available or activate a few more online services.
From now on You can use your paypal online more effectively than before, just login into your account
and activate the services.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address
cannot be answered. For assistance, login to your PayPal
account and choose the "Help" link in the footer of any page.
Thank you for using PayPal!
Best regards,
The PayPal Team
______________________________________________________________________________
I looked up the domain name and paypal-login.com is owned by an individual, not PayPal!! I also examined how this login operates carefully. What it does is capturing your e-mail and password, and then probably store them somewhere, and then log you into the real PayPal site, which means you would never know that your ID and password have been stolen. (Trying not to get too technical here. That's the general idea.)
Please do not log onto your account using this e-mail.
also if a link takes you to http://www.paypal-login.com its fraud never login to a site that does not have https next to it because it means its not secured.
---
This was also posted in several forums by our member, Paypaldamon, but it is worth sticking to the top of the forum for a few days as a reminder.
AnandTech Moderator