Are they not even trying anymore? This guy just included his regular email address in the letter without trying to disguise it or anything. Using the "someone's added a new email" shock value is not a bad idea, but come on: are those guys getting lazier or dumber?
Yeah that's pretty bad. I've received quite a few emails from "Paypal" in the past, but none of them ever fooled me. More recently, I've received a few from my local bank (hmm I wonder how they got my address, since I never gave it to them) that asked me for my account info. So I decided to let a teller know about it and she informed me that a few of their members lost everything due to this spoof email.
I always delete those emails. I don't leave money sitting in my paypal account for long periods of time anyway.
Here is the sad thing: some of my real paypal emails are now winding up in the spam section, that includes "payment received" notifications for my directory.
hey, that a great idea!.. I mean if I were a scammer (and that's a big "if" out there ) I would definitely do something like that.. I think it would be even more useful to send something like "you've just received $3,873 by paypal, click here to confirm..."
I always reply just telling em to fuck off...a lot of them have bad english, but i think they probably understand that?