PayPal Scam?

[DeludedGuy]

I recieved an email, but I'm not sure if its a scam. I registered with PayPal 3 days ago, and since then i have made one sucessful transaction. Here is the email:



Dear valued PayPal member:

During a regular update and verification of the accounts, due some internet frauds, we could not verify your current information.

Please login into your account with your username and password and follow some important steps over a secure connection to update / verify your account. However failing updating your account will only result with your account temporary suspension.

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

To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run



Thank You.
PayPal UPDATE TEAM


This is an automatic e-mail and has been sent to all users, therefore do NOT reply it.


IMPORTANT NOTICE : All details must be exactly as they appear on your credit/debit credit card.

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...rivacy-outside

[scottyman]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cac...n-run%22&hl=en

[iMc]

deffo a scam. when paypal email you they use your name not 'Dear valued PayPal member' .

[alexander]

The best advice I can give is to NEVER POST YOUR PAYPAL ADDRESS IN PUBLIC. As soon as I did i was bombarded with such letters. I now have a gmail address especially for Nochex and Paypal. It is the safest way to go tbh with more a more scamming ********* out there. Have 3 emails:

1) Friends + Family + Spam
2) Business like Ebay
3) Paypal and all money accounts

Hope this helps, Alex

[kushtibari]

Simple advice is never use a link supplied in an email. If in doubt access your account via paypal website and update it through there. I just assumed that an email from ebay was a spoof a while back and ignored it. Turned out my credit card details had expired and they almost sacked me while I had a rake of stuff for sale.

[DeludedGuy]

I really feel sorry for the people who dont know much about the web, and fall for this.

[ultimate]

I recieved an email, but I'm not sure if its a scam. I registered with PayPal 3 days ago, and since then i have made one sucessful transaction. Here is the email:



Dear valued PayPal member:

During a regular update and verification of the accounts, due some internet frauds, we could not verify your current information.

Please login into your account with your username and password and follow some important steps over a secure connection to update / verify your account. However failing updating your account will only result with your account temporary suspension.

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

To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run



Thank You.
PayPal UPDATE TEAM


This is an automatic e-mail and has been sent to all users, therefore do NOT reply it.


IMPORTANT NOTICE : All details must be exactly as they appear on your credit/debit credit card.

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...rivacy-outside

Report this to the Paypal web site at spoof@paypal.com they will look into it for you.

[silentriver]

I have had a few of these for ebay, one regarding my credit card details (i signed up before this was required, so they don't have my credit card details anyway) and another like the one above. I have talked to people who don't seem to realise that these are scam emails, and they don't always want listen.

It is a shame for those who don't know enough.

Ebay and Paypal same company so every customer s a potential target.

[Iain]

Simple advice is never use a link supplied in an email. If in doubt access your account via paypal website and update it through there.

Good advice although you should be aware there was a virus kicking about that could create and entry in your hosts file so that if you typed www.paypal.com for example into a browser then the entry in your hosts file redirected you to a scam site which looked like paypal. Very nasty, so make sure your anti-virus is up to date people