Nice touch on a Paypal scam
 

I have to hand it to these guys, this will probably be a pretty effecting means of getting dumbasses to fall for this phishing expedition:

From an email I got:



PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY

Congratulations! You have received this Notice because the records of PayPal, Inc. indicate you are a current or former PayPal account holder who has been deemed eligible to receive a payment from the
class action settlement in accordance with PayPal Litigation, Case No. 02 1227 JF PVT, pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.

In your specific case you have been found to be eligible for a payment of $88.99 USD.

Confirm Your Bank Account.

The aforementioned settlement funds may be transferred directly to your bank account providing you have a linked card. The funds may not be credited directly to your PayPal account as this would render Paypal to be accumulating interest and thus profiting on litigation settlement funds which contravenes Federal law. Your bank account will be credited within 7 days upon submission of account details.

To credit your bank account please click here.

Don't forget to check your bank account for the PayPal deposits and get Verified!

If you are seeking an alternate method of receiving your funds PayPal will be contacting those who do not submit their details by the 31th of March with instructions to receive a cheque in the mail. However this will incur a 7.5% processing fee deducted from the settlement amount and therefore PayPal only recommends this option to those users who do not currently have a bank account with linked Bank Card.

Please Note that under United States federal law credit cards are not a legally approved method of settlement for Class Action suits and cannot be processed for transferal of funds in this case.

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Nice :1orglaugh

I bet that catches quite a few out.

A few idiots will probably fell for this and lose their money.

yup, got that 3 days ago lol

I bet more than a few will. Hopefully, people will follow the link to the terms of the settlement at https://www.paypal.com/settlement and see it is a scam, but probably not.

ROFL ... the guy must be making maaaad bling ;)

hmm we got 50

i get that 3 times a day :mad:

how many times a day do i have to send them my info ... :1orglaugh :helpme jk

Well it is creative that's for sure... and I know enough people will fall for it.

I think they will have lots of people summit info .... back in the emailing days (not that it has ended) ... but i meant like 5 years ago ..we sold data bases .. now i know it's a bit sneaky ..but back then you didn't have the can spam act and if all you had was an email you could sell it .... but it was worth more if i had full info .. Name/address etc. so i took all the lists i had with no info and sent them a form saying we purchased some data that is getting a high remove request and feel the data was not worth having in our network .. so please fill out the form below so we can find and remove your data ... the form had everything ... email/first/last/ address/ph#/even check interests ... about 35% filled it out ... when i look back i know it wasn't the right thing to do ..but i was making mad money and it wasn't illegal ... i think .. :Oh crap

i got it as well,very clever,mad peeps will fall for this for sure!

I get that a lot as well. I didn't think it was that clever but perhaps the ignorant will fall for it.

yeh that would get a few people

I have to remember to send that email to Mr. Buramjimba from Nigeria

I got a similiar one last month. Fucking idiots, how many people fall for that?

fucking phishers :-/

Hope everyone gets their details to them by the "31th" of March!