paypal scam ( FAO be aware)

[Kev]

Unauthorized access to your PayPal account!



We recently noticed more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address.

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PayPal Email ID PP468

I then checked the e-mail information.........shown below

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from rly-xm05.mx.aol.com (rly-xm05.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.106]) by air-xm02.mail.aol.com (v108_r3.6) with ESMTP id MAILINXM22-61144372f641dd; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:35:13 -0400
Received: from den.bizboulevard.net (den.bizboulevard.net [65.31.65.66]) by rly-xm05.mx.aol.com (v108_r3.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXM53-61144372f641dd; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:35:00 -0400
Received: from 65.31.65.66 (ip-216-54-99-187.coxfiber.net [216.54.99.187])
by den.bizboulevard.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id k383YqB8013985
for <[email protected]>; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:34:53 -0400
Received: from 96.0.97.96 by ; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:26:43 -0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: "PayPal" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "PayPal" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Unauthorized access to your PayPal account!
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:28:43 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--53267255866786283"
X-IP: 136.18.6.80
X-Priority: 3
X-AOL-IP: 65.31.65.66
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 1:2:416625494:11542724
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 3

quite obviously a scam, but the un-suspecting of us may just enter the information. They have actually copied the site quite well......

Kev

 

[goldstar0011]

I've had few of them over past few months and even for my bank account!

Only advice to people is never click a link to accounts from emails, login into it normally and contact PayPal, I've done this several times and suplly them with the email details.

 

[Arnold]

Get loaaaads of these at work, including the paypal one. Despite all the advice companies give out etc, im surprised people still fall for these!

 

[Pete]

i got a great one the other day saying my credit card had expired, showing my credit car number as ************7563 and that I should follow the link to add a new card, obviously very concerned thinking they had my cc number only to realise non of my cards end in that number