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Re: Is this a paypal scam?
From: Dave Sherohman <esper () sherohman org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:45:02 -0600
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:37:58AM -0600, jschmidt () buhler com wrote:
http://218.62.43.30/verify.html Signed up for paypal 2 weeks ago, and then this came in the mail as a link in a paypal looking html email asking me to confirm by entering my credit card/account info.
As PayPal states repeatedly, "You should only share information about your account once you have logged in to https://www.paypal.com/." Not http://218.62.43.30/verify.html. IOW, yes, it's a scam. Report it to fraud () paypal com.
If this is a scam, then maybe paypal has some employees passing new account info outside the company.
No, it gets sent to everyone whether they have a PayPal account or not. Like spam, credit card scams don't even need anything close to a 1% response rate to be profitable, so they don't care how many non-PayPal-users get it. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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