warning, tricky email

[{fusion}]

just had a very tricky email and was so real i nearly fell for it,

Dear PayPal member

During our regular verification process we were unable to verify your information. That is because your information is either incomplete or incorrect. To prevent your account from being disabled, we are asking you to login to your account and make sure that your account information is complete. To login to you account please click on the following link:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

You must login to your account within 7 days from receiving this notification, otherwise your account will be placed on limited access.

Thank You for using PayPal!


the url seems genuine, but its cloaked and goes to

comyneskey.netfirms.com

they use same format ect, so thought i'd give the heads up just incase you get it

[TheWildcard]

Yeah, it's old.

[Mojo Rizin]

Just got it as well.. deleted it before I got past the 1st line

[Spunky]

Doh...I fell for it...I thought it was legit

[Wilber]

Email asking for password conformation? What was the tricky part?

[NoCarrier]

Damn.. Where have you been the past 2 years?

[pimplink]

Thanks for the info. That'll help a lot.

[darnit]

Originally posted by spunky1
Doh...I fell for it...I thought it was legit

I did to because i was having problems with a very new account i set up. Beyond changing the password anything else i should do to protect the account?

[pine]

oh shit, that was a scam?

[Dirty F]

This has been going on for years and is posted twice a week here.

[Marcus Aurelius]

paypal scam thread number 799,512 this week.

[CDSmith]

Originally posted by {fusion}
Dear PayPal member

There's the telltale sign right there. Paypal will always use your actual membership name, not some generic reference.

Always. This comes straight from Paypal.

[Jdoughs]

Originally posted by CDSmith
There's the telltale sign right there. Paypal will always use your actual membership name, not some generic reference.

Always. This comes straight from Paypal.

[darnit]

Originally posted by darnit
I did to because i was having problems with a very new account i set up. Beyond changing the password anything else i should do to protect the account?

[OzMan]

How can there still be people that haven't heard of this scam?

It's been going on for years, is reported on CNN about once a month and on here at least about the same.

They even have info about it on their front page

[doober]

lol, is everybody here a webmaster?

[CDSmith]

Originally posted by OzMan
How can there still be people that haven't heard of this scam?

Take a good solid length of steel railing, go find the nearest large rock and lever it over, and I guarranty you there's a person living under it.