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PayPal Users Beware


ThatRoundHeadedKid
09-21-2006, 08:58 AM
My dad called me about this to notify me that there are some BS PayPal emails goin around after he got one, now I recieved one just today. It looks like a legitimate PayPal, and I took a desktop shot of what the email looks like (sorry if it's too big), but I circled the little details that I found, which made the email illegitimate, for example, it doesn't say who the emailw as sent to, it just says "undisclosed-recipients" instead of your actual email. Anyway, just wanted to give all you PayPal users a heads up.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4781/untitledrc7.jpg

Damien
09-21-2006, 09:05 AM
wasn't this posted before by Dave??? maybe i saw it on something else...

thecackster
09-21-2006, 10:44 AM
Good catch...i got the same thing the other day...just was like stupid junk...good thing.

S Brake
09-21-2006, 12:33 PM
My brother in-law got one a few weeks ago, he found out that it was fake when he followed a link and logged in with the wrong password and it still worked. He then went directly to the official paypal site and tried using that same password and it didn't work.
I believe there was someone on another board who got one of these bogus emails and he doesn't even have a paypal account.

'97ventureowner
09-21-2006, 01:10 PM
wasn't this posted before by Dave??? maybe i saw it on something else...
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=599750

freakray
09-21-2006, 08:10 PM
This news is nearly as old as AF.....

Oz
09-21-2006, 08:20 PM
OMG WTF the internetz0r has scamm3rs??? no way!

Toksin
09-21-2006, 10:58 PM
OMG WTF the internetz0r has scamm3rs??? no way!

Yeah no kidding.

Send me $10 and your bank account details and I'll tell you how you can avoid being scammed.

Oz
09-21-2006, 11:00 PM
Do you take postdated cheque?

Toksin
09-22-2006, 12:39 AM
No, cash or credit only.

ThatRoundHeadedKid
09-22-2006, 12:00 PM
Ok....I know this isn't news...but I just recently recieved this and I wanted to advise people not to give in to a legit-looking PayPal email if they use PayPal while also making them aware of the small details which makes it illegitimate....And so what that Dave posted this, the one he recieved was relatively different compared to mine...

sheesh....I'm not that stupid

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