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Re: Possible paypal security problem
From: jam () zoidtechnologies com
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:17:54 -0500
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:31:02PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
I tried to log in to paypal about half an hour ago. I manually typed www.paypal.com to login. I got the normal paypal login page, and after entering my password I got the following message:
[...snipped..]
The email had was pure text with no links or images so I'm fairly sure it's genuine. This makes me even more nervous that there is a man-in-the-middle attack going on. I can't change my password since there is no way for me to finish logging in (it just keeps saying retry). Can anyone figure out what is going on here, and what I should do to fix it? It is also occurring to me that maybe paypal thinks that my IP address (68.205.xxx.xxx, Brighthouse Cable in Orange County, Florida) is foreign for some reason and that that misconception is causing all of these problems. If anyone can help or at least explain to me what's going on I would appreciate it. -Harry
greetings, one thing I noticed is that the emails referred to you by name-- the usual phishing scam is blasted out to a few gazillion people and does not generally make reference to your real name. I recommend you phone paypal and get an explanation. if you need a phone number let me know. regards, J -- http://zoidtechnologies.com/ -- websites that suck less
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