PAYPAL email scam

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From:
"John Smith" <[email protected]>
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To:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Dear PayPal Customer,

As part of our commitment to offering a safe transaction network for all of
our valued members, we regularly screen account activity. During one of
these screenings, we reviewed your account and determined that the activity
associated to your eBay or PayPal accounts poses an inherent risk to the
overall security of our network. Unfortunately, due to this risk, we have
determined that we are no longer able to offer the use of our services to
you.
If you feel that we have made a mistake, please contact us at [email protected]. In the email, include the following information:
-Your PayPal email as shown: ?email=_____?
-Your PayPal Password as shown: ?password=______?
When you type these codes with your actual email and password into the space where the line is, our email will recognize the code and auto confirm your authenticity.

We thank you for your prompt attention and cooperation with this matter, and are sorry for any
inconvenience this incident may have caused you.
Sincerely,

Account Review Department
===============================================

This was very convincing!!! If i didn't know about emails or anything about internet i might fall for this SCAM. Checkout the email [email protected]
 
When you see something that's not from paypal's domain (paypal.com) it should raise a red flag in your mind.
 
It's very good, short and to the point, just the domain n knowing they never ask for details via email would stop me.

I feel for all the people that get caught by this one, did u forward it to paypal fraud?
 
Paypal would never use a hotmail link either, LOL, but I'm sure alot of people fall for this stuff though.
 
Umm, how is that convincing... I don't even think my 8 year brother would fall for that. The same paypal phishing scheme has been going around since the beginning of time.
 
Just wondering when time began and when it did, were you able to send an instant payment notification? :)

Umm, how is that convincing... I don't even think my 8 year brother would fall for that. The same paypal phishing scheme has been going around since the beginning of time.
 
Clarification... the beginning of paypal's time... smart ass :D
 
All mail from PayPal will address you by name. Anything that begins

Dear PayPal Customer,

is by definition a scam. Read no further.
 
the guy who sent this mail must be a noob in the phishing world
 
Even I, a total noob, didn't fall for this one. I did report it to PP. I got three of these in quick succession. It helped that my Mac put up a phishing warning....
 
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