Take care with strange paypal email running out there..
 

Hello people,

I have received today an email from [email protected], and I know this someone spamming under their name requesting to renew my account info.

This is kind a strange because it was sent to my personal email account which has nothing to do with my job and I never gave it for this purposes. below I'll copy the text of the email:

"Dear PayPal valued member,
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the PayPal
community we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your account information needs to be renew due to
inactive members, spoof reports and frauds.
You must to renew your records and you will not
run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account deletation.
This notification expires on June 07, 2004.

Once you have updated your account records your PayPal will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.

Please follow the link below
and renew your account information.

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


PayPal Service Department "

The url link above goes to: http://65.54.174.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?...2eu s%2eto%2f
and page is inactive for some reason..

I've checked almost all the links in that page and they are going to paypal and etc.. but my question is.. why they are sending me this email to my private account, it isn't spam? or it is done by someone else?..

Samuel

Thanks for the warning!

thanks man!

Sounds like a scam to me. :2 cents:

If you read the fraud page on paypal.. they never refer to you as paypal member or paypal user.. Paypal always uses your username

Where you been, man? I've been getting that every couple of days since last year. :) From memory it's a virus, that emails to address book entries and also mailto: references it finds in the web cache.

Here's another one that came in literally two minutes after I posted my reply...


Dear PayPal member,

We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five
business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by
providing us with your personal information.

To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to
run the attached application to this email. Just run it and follow the
instructions.

IMPORTANT! If you ignore this alert, your account will be suspended in next
five business days and you will not be able to use PayPal anymore.

Thank you for using PayPal.