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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:09 pm
by J Smith
I just got this email.

PayPal Security Measures!

We are contacting you to remind you that: on 13,14 Jan 2007 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account, one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address.

IP Address
Time
Country

80.53.1.130
Jan 14, 2007 15:05:08 PDT
Poland

80.53.255.174
Jan 13, 2007 15:07:58 PDT
Poland

141.85.99.169
Jan 14, 2007 15:13:09 PDT
Romania

141.85.99.169
Jan 13, 2007 21:28:08 PDT
Romania

195.61.146.130
Jan 14, 2007 21:33:43 PDT
Romania


In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you.


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To continue your verification procedure click here



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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:15 am
by The Deacon
Looks like you got a rare one there Jeff, email from a phisher/scammer with a good command of the English language. Most of them appear to be an equal mixture of fifth grade dropouts at best and folks who flunked ESL.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:44 am
by Th232
Wow, that one is pretty good. Are you sure it's not a fake :rolleyes: ?

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:40 am
by snuffaluff
JSmith, that is a strange one, including IPs. Have you checked the IPs ? I mean, sheesh, ppl are just handing out other's IPs, which is crazy.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:21 am
by J Smith
That one did look good enough that I went to my pay pal account and checked it,nothing wrong that I could see.I then sent the link and text to pay pal and they said it was a fake.
Changed my password just in case.Anyone notice the new thing with changing your password.Pay Pal has to call you and give you an access code to do it.When I changed it I clicked call now and as soon as I clicked it the phone rang with a recording that gave me the access code.