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In Reply to: PayPal email....is this a phish? posted by Marc Bratton on November 28, 2005 at 09:39:04:
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...dormant acct, and am I in any danger if I do nothing? BTW, I looked at the email header again and they spelled address as 'addres' which should be a clue. How do they get it looking so legit? It took me right to PayPal website.
The site is phony, just like the e-mail.I forward all of these to spoof@ebay.com with long headers. If they get enough, perhaps they will take action against the phishers.
You will get similar e-mails purporting to be from financial institutions with whom you have never had dealings. The crooks are just phishing, and hope to hit some naive folks who do have accounts with them.
christ! internet websites are made of mainly pictures and text. anybody who is half-way intelligent and motivated to steal your money can copy a website to look authentic. why don't you look in your status bar to see where you're getting directed before clicking on a link? the status bar - you know, the bar directly above your start menu button. if you scroll over the email link it clearly doesn't direct you to a paypal.com address. nothing more to add as everything else has already been said.
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