warning, tricky email
 

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

Yeah, it's old.

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

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

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

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

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

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? :helpme

oh shit, that was a scam? :eek2

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

paypal scam thread number 799,512 this week.

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.

:thumbsup

:helpme

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

lol, is everybody here a webmaster?

:uhoh

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.