Paypal

Posted by: Fisbey on 25 January 2005

I just received this email:

In response for your PayPal account security we have to report that your
password may be is compromised. Your account is marked for too many
successful logins last week (January, 17-24, 2005). It is more interesting
that the hostnames are from different countries:


United States (c-67-160-224-80.client.comcast.net)
Canada (HSE-Toronto-ppp304429.sympatico.ca)
Russia (32.122-140-213.telenet.ru)
Sweden (c213-100-93-27.swipnet.se)


Your account is limited for security reasons.



Follow the link to make sure you are on a secure PayPal page and login with currently password.
Please reauthorize your account information on or before January 31, 2005.


Is this authentic? - the wording is a bit strange 'currently password'?

Any ideas?
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by hungryhalibut
It sounds like a scam to get you to disclose your Paypal password - rather like the mails that ask for your bank account and password. With your password, scammers could make purchases and use your direct debit (or credit card) link for payment.

I would contact Paypal if you are concerned, but would otherwise bin it.

Nigel
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by BigH47
DON'T follow any links. Just forward to

spoof@paypal.com or .co.uk

they will tell you if its genuine. Judging by the grammer it's not, spelling is usually poor on these mails, I get them "from" E-Bay as well, not a genuine one yet.

Howard
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by Steve Bull
If you log in to paypal, do not do it via the link in the e-mail (which will probably be something that looks like paypal but is in reality www.scammingtosserswaitingtoseewhatyourpasswordis.com), enter the normal paypal url direct into your browser/select it from bookmarks.

Steve.
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by HTK
This is a scam. PayPal will never send you an Email asking you to follow a link.

Cheers
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by Hawk
Another vote for 'its a scam' but id also like to add that i have received a different Paypal scam today.
The one i received pretends to be a customer satisfaction survey with the usual MO of a link in the body of the email... the rest is pretty predictable!
My only suprise is that its taken this long for the Paypal scams to start hitting my inbox, the ebay variants have been a plague for ages..
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by JonR
Fisbey,

It's a scam, pure and simple, and like hungryhalibut's SL2's they've been done to death Smile

Cheers,

JR