I just got a email supposedly from pay pal here are the headers and the email:





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Subject: Notification of PayPal Limited Account Access
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Length: 911




Dear Paypal Member,

PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by
regularly screening the accounts in our system. We
recently reviewed your account, and we need more
information to help us provide you with secure service.
Until we can collect this information, your access to
sensitive account features will be limited. We apologize
for the inconvenience, and we would like to restore your
access as soon as possible.

For more information about the status of your account
and for instructions on how to restore full use of your
account, please log in by clicking on the link below:

https://www.paypal.com.log/restore/wf_ID/01.../01f=ra_default

We advice you to log in, confirm your e-mail address and
restore full access within the next 48 hours. Should
access to your account remain limited for an extended
period of time, it may result in further limitations
on the use of your account or may result in eventual
account closure.

Your Case ID number is: (edited just in case)
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

PayPal Account Review Team


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I am thinking this is a scam??? becuase look at this : Content-Length: 911
what the heck is that????? I am scared to death to click the link, cant afford my accounbt to be hacked , but then if it is for real I am scared not to LOL HELPPPPPP please
the email itself is only 3 k so it isnt a virus but maybe the link will take me somewhere where they can get my password? thanks for any help

Nope, its hacker

Just been reading another post in the general comments section

http://www.getpaidforum.com/forums/index.p...=0&#entry563890

`thanks Brian!!! I am so Glad for this forum, if I had never found it I would never have guessed people could send hacker emails making it look like a real buiseness. any time pay pal supposedly writes to me I check the headers now and this one looked totally weird to me and I jsut now logged into pay pal and there is no note there telling me that I have a problem. Do you think I should forward this email to them? Probably wont do any good tho Thanks for answering me If there was a problem with pay pal they would tell me when I log in right? that is what I am going to ALWAYS do as I saw one lady got hacked there and they took a lot of her money I HATE hackers!!!
any way, hope ya had a nice EAster

By the looks of things, a lot of people have received this email (me not being one of them)

So I guess a few have already reported it, it won't do you any harm letting them know, but I don't suspect they'll do anything about it

As for Hackers, there is only one word for them SCUM, pure SCUM!!!

I contacted them and can you believe they have a contact form just for fake emails! I sent the headers and I sent them to the forum to see that 3 people so far have wrote in that they got it (I am betting many more have and also that many have actually went to that site and are now being hacked ) hackers are lower then scum they are the scum on the amebos that are crawling in the scum on the bottom of our shoes (could say something else but it would just get edited LOL)oh and I cant spell LOL

Nice one, just hope they catch the "scum on the amebos that are crawling in the scum on the bottom of our shoes"

BTW, I can't spell myself

Hang, yes I can

it

M Y S E L and F

LOL, nevermind, I'm having a funny hours

LOL silly!

I got a email back from them :

To report a possible fraudulent website/email. Please be sure the
following
is included:

1. A copy of the suspicious email that was received

2. If the email contained a link to a website, the link that was
included

3. The email address of the person who sent the suspicious email

PayPal will take immediate and appropriate action on the matter. If
you
have surrendered financial information or password information to the
website/email, report this to your financial institutions, and
immediately
change your passwords and secret answers. If you find any unauthorized
changes on any account, report the occurrence immediately!

To file a claim of Unauthorized Use of Your PayPal Account, click here:
https://www.paypal.com/wf/f=sa_unauth

If you can no longer access your PayPal Account, use the following
instructions*. If you still cannot access your PayPal Account after
following these instructions, click here:
https://www.paypal.com/ewf/f=sa_unauth

If you have sent a payment, but believe the seller to be fraudulent, or
have not received product, please log into your PayPal Account, click
'Security Center', click on the 'Buyer Complaint Form' and follow the
instructions. DO NOT reply to this email as no one is assigned to
respond
to this automatic email.

If this is a PayPal transaction showing up on your Credit Card or Bank
Statement that is NOT on your PayPal Account, please call
1-888-221-1161
and request to be transferred to the Stolen Credit Card/Stolen
Bank Account Department. Please note, only reports of stolen Credit
Cards and stolen Bank Accounts will be handled by phone. All other
reports will only be acted on if emailed via appropriate webform. DO
NOT reply to this email as no one is assigned to respond to this
automatic email

maybe paypal can stop the unlawful charges but I bet no one can catch the thieving scum of amebos scum on the bottom of our feet hackers (LOL ok that really could be a tongue twister!)

I got the same email and I've also reported it to paypal with complete headers.

I received the mail too I'm not even a member from Paypal... so I clicked... I provided them my login and password to access my hotmail account and some others :ph34r: :ph34r:

I got it too... you can tell by the link... plus IF you logged in and there was NO LOCK in your browser window it's not Paypal. Every page in your acct is secured. Plus when you click on it... you get

http://212.34.63.253/.../paypal-login.com/...ehttp3a=paypal/

which is not a paypal url. I did look up what the limited access was and IF I had had limited access there would've been a flag when I logged in where I could fix the problem. There wasn't one when I logged in. If ever in doubt don't click ANY of the emails go to your acct there will be a flag.

I hate hackers really... but I mean what can ya do... all I needed to change my PW was my CC number! UGH!

Huh ???

Soooooooooo ... you don't USE your Hotmail account ???

Why would you give them real data for ANY account ?

OOOOPs - that was meant to be a quote for cortega

ummm, why would you give them your information if you dont even have pay pal?? that was a sure fire red flag that the email was a hacker, you dont even have a account! you better change your email passwords and anyhting else you gave them before it is too late.

Actually, I think this may be a good idea

Lets all click on the link, give blag info in the sign-in and let the hacker waste time trying to work out whats going on if enough of us do it, they may get fed up and quit trying to hack our accounts, lol...

The IP adress points to this.

IP/Hostname - Country/area Search Results
Your inquiry: 212.34.65.253
Country/area allocated: Germany

So that narrows it down to about 100 Million people, lol...

I got that e-mail too...but it was at the e-mail address that I dont use for my paypal...so knew it was crap asap.

What a jerk......I hate hackers and scammers and liars and......I know I know...I am getting carried away

Ahhhhhhhhhhh !!

But ..............

Ve hav vays of making you talk :ph34r:

Yeah, I guess it was a very dumb move on me. :ph34r:... I was just to bored, I guessed they finally accepted me as a member and tried...

Well I changed most the account with that password by now.

I traced the IP-originating mail, and got somewhere near Orlando, FL.

OK -- it was Mickey Maus

I'd say that any message, from PayPal, e-gold, Stormpay, etc, purporting to inform you of a problem with your account and offering a link to click, is probably 99% likely to be fraudulent. It is too easy for clever hackers to spoof such e-mails -- and PayPal et al have to know this as well. I would hope that any of these payment services who wanted to tell you of such a problem would invite you to log onto their web site via normal means.

I have to admit that I have occasionally clicked a link from the automatic notifications I get when I win an e-Bay auction. I suppose it is conceivable that someone who is intensely monitoring e-Bay could spoof these e-mails, but that would be much harder than a canned message such as we are talking about here. Even so, it is almost as simple to log onto PayPal and use their auction finder -- and eliminate any risk.

What I have done with Netscape is to set up a toolbar with links like PayPal, eBay, egold that I access all the time. They're always visible and it's just a single click to get to those web sites.

Bullet

Any time you get a email from pay pal... do NOT go to the link, even if you have a account pay pal says it will NOT send any links in their emails. If there is a problem they will ask you to log into your account, it will be there what you have to do. I believe they should send a email to all their members and state that they will NEVer send out links, because not every member belongs to this forum and doesnt know these things. I feel for all the people who get hacked and lose some or all of their money and I hope they get all the money back. These hackers should get stiff punishments for these things , but of cource there is no sure fire way to even find out who they are

I received ity as well .... and I don't have Paypal ;-)

Glad I read this casue I jsut got the same fricken email. But logged in and everything was fine. I will forward mine too.


thanks everyone!

We should post a thread beware!!! or ALERT!!! Becaseu you know someone might fall for this.


TRish:)

Yeah, check out the ereturn path on this crap. Return-Path: <ltech@napa.valueweb.net> VERY NICE!!! Boy these arses really tick me off.

I do believe it is in there also, but I joined years ago and since then have joined hundreds of programs as have many others I believe, so I think it would be a nice thing for them to do to say send a auto responder message maybe once a year just stating that they NEVER send links in emails and to never click the link , just log into their account and see if things are ok. (soemthing to that affect) when you belong to so many places you dont always rember everything in the terms of each and every site and I hate to say it but many people dont even read the terms (they should tho cause you would be suprised at what some of them have in them ) and yes for those that dont read them I guess it would be their fault for not reading them, but lets face it, hackers dont deserve to get payed because of someone not reading their terms fully, what they are doing is illigal and they should be the ones to pay not the honest member . I have seen people lose all their money because of a hacker and they are devastated . It would only be soemthing pay pal could do to help their members become MORE aware .