[Cialug] PayPal security fraud

[Jonathan Bailey]

That's a fraudulant e-mail. ALTHOUGH... PayPal did recently suspend my
account due to "fraudulant" usage. What was fraudulant was me paying a
friend $300 for his services as a DJ at my wedding when I usually make and
receive payments for eBay auctions... The best way to check is to type in
paypal.com into your browser and see if you get any alerts that way.


Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Allen Kiddoo
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:40 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] PayPal security fraud

Group-

Just got 2 emails from this idiot-
One problem- I don't have a paypal account.

Sounds real but I know it isn't.
You might want to fore warn others.

Allen Kiddoo
Muscatine
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---------- Forwarded Message -----------
From: security at paypal.com <service at paypal.com>
To: info at iowaprint.com
Sent: 19 Jul 2005 00:29:08 +0900
Subject: Urgent PayPal security notification

Security Center Advisory!

 We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account
from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to belive that your account
was hijacked by a third party without your authorization. If you recently
accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attemptsmay have
been initiated by you.

If you are the rightful holder of the account you must click the link below
and then complete all steps from the following page as we try to verify your
identity.

 Click here to verify your account

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly
suspend your account.

Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team

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PayPal Email ID PP697

 Protect Your Account Info

Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent persons.

PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information using the Secure
Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the
highest level commercially available).

PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review our
Security Tips at http://www.paypal.com/securitytips

 Protect Your Password

 You should never give your PayPal password to anyone, including PayPal
employees.
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