Just so you know I got a fake e-mail that was claimed to be from paypal, make sure paypal emails come from paypal, mine came from 4bikes.pl and always always make sure that the URL is paypals, Internet explorer tells you if its a phishing site. I changed my password, i think im iin the clear. has this happed to anyone else, this came right after a spoof e-mail supposidly from no-minimum.com which i have worked out
Thanks for the information. Another thing to do is don't click on links that come to your email from paypal, instead manually goto paypal.com and login and if they REALLY needed you to do something you'll see something about it in your account.
Never click any link supplied through email thats what i do when its related to any financial site. Just forward that email to thats all. DON.
Anytime you receive an email from paypal or claiming that it is not paypal, don't click anything just go to the browser and type http://www.paypal.com, login and look for the information. If it is real, the information should be there too.
These have been around for a long time. The crop up faster than Paypal can shut them down. If you think it might be real, just hold your mouse pointer over the link and you can see on the bottom of the browser what the link is. Also as others have said, always goto the site manually and you can check any messages that were really sent to you there. This also applies for eBay and most credit card companies.
One more thing to always notice that paypal always start their email with 'Dear Your First Name and Your Last Name' instead of Dear Paypal Member or something like that. Just make one habit that always login your account using new browser with type full url yourself. Its better and safe IMO.
Well I never notice they use our name But I was fooled once, so I never dare click on any paypal link or anything in an email just to be on the safe side. Agree with your suggestion make it a habit type in the url yourself. Cheers!
i received the same one. but i also received a similar email from another place too. they direct to different link (not to paypal) i would suggest, never click link s directly even if they are from paypal.(except the activation link) best is to go directly and login. and please take the test regarding these emails. there is one at paypal.com though i dont remember the link right now
this is what the e-mail said, and it came fromPayPal not Paypal log was here PayPal has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the PayPal accounts. As a result we periodically review PayPal Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are vunerable to the unauthorised use. This message has been sent to you from PayPal because we have noticed invalid login attempts into your account, due to this we are temporarily limiting and restricting your account access until we confirm your identity. To confirm your identity and remove your account limitation please following the link below this is the url it sent me to http://www.hotel.sklep.pl/images/pa...ca6e6dba02e61d41cc3ed807b07dc39dca6e6dba02e61 it looks exactly like paypal. DO NOT LOGIN THROUGH IT PayPal is committed to ensure the safeguard of each customer's personal information, making sure only authorised individuals have access to their accounts. It is all about your security. Accounts Management 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. http://www.paypal.com/
Here is my account on spoofing of paypal accounts back in July http://make-money-from.blogspot.com/2007/07/quick-reminder-to-unsuspected-paypal.html Ever since it has been send to me quite a few times I always forward the emails to which is what paypal recommends
Well you are wrong on this, send to them and in the next 24-48 hours that phish web site will disappear. I never seen Paypal so efficient in other things except this I guess. Ebay is another one that is super fast on phishing thingy. I can tell you the banks are worse, I send them the phish email and their reply was they are not the one sending it, after a few correspondence, I just back off, they can have all the phishing they like.....
I've received so many of these that as soon as I see an email from PayPal or Ebay my red flag alert goes off! I'd say 1 out of 10 emails i get that say PayPal are not from paypal, so I hardly ever read them anymore...
Thanks everyone for the info i did once click the link as it was my first phish email but lucky i noticed the url before login to it...
This is my experience: - Check the domain of the email sender and make sure it's an PayPal domain - Make sure the link you going to click are belong to PayPal domains. It may be a fake like this: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run - All emails from PayPal contain: Dear FirstName LastName, like this: Emails like: are 99.99% fake emails I will tell you more if I remember more! Hope this help!