PAYPAL ALERT!!!!

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JuniperDewdrop · 23/09/2004 20:58

I just recieved 2 spoof emails. One saying that I'd paid $273.99 to a company and the other saying I'd added an email address to my paypal account. These emails look fairly convincing but they didn't ask for me by name. I forwarded them to paypal. Luckily no transaction had taken place. They obviously wanted me to click on their link and give out my details.
Please be very careful, if you get anything similar log into paypal normally never through an email.

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linniewith2 · 23/09/2004 23:35

they shouls always address you by your name if you receive an email from them..........I get lots of these too also from ebay, I never reply or cliick the links just forward them to paypal or spam@ebay and they will tell u if its genuine or not.
This is happening alot at the mo

bobs · 23/09/2004 23:42

You can also block any spoof emails (under Tools)

pixiefish · 24/09/2004 07:33

or get an ebay toolbar- click download on it on the ebay homepage

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JuniperDewdrop · 26/09/2004 17:19

I got another one. I've downloaded the toolbar. How do you block the spoofs under tools please?

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Socci · 26/09/2004 19:32

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JuniperDewdrop · 27/09/2004 17:59

I know socci, I was wondering the same thing

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NomDePlume · 27/09/2004 19:52

The ebay email is actually '[email protected]'

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